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Audio Visual Transcription
Our audio visual transcription service provides an efficient solution for archivists and collection holders looking to capture valuable material currently held in audio format, such as old cassettes and oral interviews and histories.
Audio visual transcription uses specialist software to pick out every spoken word on your audio cassettes, accurately transcribing them to any text format, creating a readable record of who is speaking and what they say. In addition, this audio content is time stamped, thereby making names, words and phrases completely searchable.
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Highly accuracy audio visual transcription
Our specialist audio visual transcription software accurately transcribes speech-to-text, adding punctuation, identifying who is speaking, and formatting, to guarantee the best results.
Format Flexibility
Our specialist audio visual transcription software can accurately capture audio in any format and transcribe this into typed text, in any format you may require.
Creating instantly searchable digital content
We can import your transcribed audio visual data straight into PastView or your own collections management system. Creating fully searchable metadata to make your archive infinitely more discoverable.
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We can either digitise your audio collection or you can provide us with your digitised audio files.
We can convert file formats, reduce background noise and level channels for the best possible audio transcription results.
Using our specialist audio visual transcription software we can convert speech-to-text from your audio files, quickly and accurately.
We can import your transcribed audio data straight into PastView or into your own system where formatting and time stamping will make it fully searchable.
Hear what our clients have to say about our data capture services
Thanks to the digitisation carried out by TownsWeb, we have been able to extend the reach of our collections, for example by using the high quality files on our website. This makes the material available for those that cannot physically get to our museum due to its rural location, but also globally for research and educational purposes
Museum Curator and Project Leader
I’m very pleased that we’ve managed to add Personal Information Sheets, Staff Records and the 19th Century Woolwich History book to our website. It’s very exciting watching our digital archive grow online. We would again like to thank the staff at TownsWeb Archiving for their skill in seamlessly integrating the new content in to the website.
Curator
The improvement in searching has been tremendous. The good feedback we get from users about searching the new site has really made the update worthwhile. It has also made us think more about attributes we have associated with items, so as we improve these the search results that users get will also improve.
Trustee
Audio Visual Transcription Frequently Asked Questions
Our highly experienced technicians use specialist software to transcribe any audio visual content into any typed text format.
Audio visual transcription creates a readable record of your audio content, formatting to identify who is speaking and exactly what they say. The software then time stamps this information so that it is possible to locate specific information at the point it features in the recording.
This audio transcribed data can then be integrated straight into PastView or, indeed, your own system, making the content completely searchable.
We can capture any audio content to include cassette recordings, CD, MP3, MP4, WAV, AVI and DSS of oral interviews and histories and any other audio recorded information.
We can also identify who is speaking, what they say and when they say it. Stamping the time against your recorded data means that words and phrases can be searched for, and users taken to those specific points within your recording.
Our specialist audio visual transcription software is highly accurate, transcribing speech-to-text and adding the punctuation, speaker and formatting to guarantee you the very best results.
We can produce output files of your typed text in any format you specify, such as JSON, MS Word, Adobe PDF, Text or CSV.
We can help you import your transcribed data into your own system or, alternatively, we can import the data into our collection management systems, PastView platform. This data can then be used to comprehensively search and share your audio collections. Why not incorporate your transcribed audio visual collections into some of the wonderful features that our PastView system has to offer, such as showcasing your oral interviews and histories through our very popular timeline feature.
Yes, if supplied in an editable format (such as MS Word) however, if you are looking to use this within a system, it is recommended not to edit until it is migrated into a platform, such as PastView.
TownsWeb Archiving offers an audio visual platform, PastView for managing a wide range of file formats. Audio transcriptions along with the original audio-visual files can be uploaded to the platform allowing keyword searching of the transcripts. Following the location of the phrase or word, the user can click play and away they go.
Calculate the cost of your data capture project
Enter your data capture requirements and tick the box to confirm whether you would like us to get in touch to discuss your requirements further. If you’re not quite ready to use our online quote calculator, feel free to call on 01536 713834 or email us [email protected]
Quote assumptions and specifications
- These costings are based on the assumption that TownsWeb Archiving have digitised the material prior to transcription
- If you are using already digitised files, TownsWeb Archiving will need sight of the images in order to check suitability and agreeing to the work