Oral History Transcription

A component of academic transcription is gaining in importance is oral history transcription. Professional transcription companies are increasingly providing this transcription service. The transcription process involves transcribing spoken history into hard copy transcripts. Some benefits of oral history interview transcriptions are:

The audio or video recording of an oral history memoire or interview is a research document, while transcripts transcribed from recordings represent, in type, the words and extraneous sounds recorded on the tape. An oral history transcript is therefore a primary historical source. As such, oral history interview transcriptions must be accurate transcriptions, reflecting the word, speech and thought patterns of the interviewee (s). Accuracy, not speed, is the oral history transcriber’s goal. While verbatim transcription is the norm in oral history transcription, too many feedbacks can interrupt the flow of the interview and make for clumsy reading. Knowing when to include feedback sounds and when to omit them is one of the qualities of a professional oral history transcriptionist.

Capital Typing’s Transcription Services department can satisfy Los Angeles transcription service needs in all areas of transcription, including oral history transcription. We provide expert cassette tape transcription, digital file transcription, and video and DVD transcription. Our transcriptionists offer personal attention to each client’s individual preferences while maintaining the highest standards of oral history transcription. Oral history transcription projects are assigned solely to transcriptionists experienced in this area of transcription. Capital Typing transcriptionists will always ask customers to designate a single, standard dictionary for each oral history transcription project. Together with the client, the transcriptionists will set guidelines for the consistent spelling of regional words. Phonetic transcription skills are often required in oral history transcription projects, and Capital Typing’s professional transcriptionists are familiar with phonetic alphabets used to capture the actual pronunciation of words.

Capital Typing is an outsourcer of a complete, integrated range of office support solutions. Our Language Translation Services department often works together with our Transcription Services department, making us one of the rare Los Angeles transcription companies that can deliver language transcription (French transcription, Spanish Transcription, German Transcription … ) - an advantage that is extremely useful in research transcription, academic transcription, and interview transcription, including oral history interview transcription.

The affordable transcription rates we charge for oral history transcription reflect our company’s commitment to supporting research initiatives. We welcome oral history transcription enquiries from researchers and historians, regardless of the size of their transcription projects.