What is Transcription?

With globalization, outsourcing has become the norm in business.  Organizations and individuals are always looking to maximize their profit and minimize their costs.  Also, to improve their overall efficiency outsourcing is a must.

Although transcription is a very small portion of the global outsourcing volume, this has been increasing steadily.


India and the Philippines are the favorite destinations for outsourced transcription jobs.

Transcription is the process of converting recorded audios called dictations into text.

For example, in legal transcription, a law firm sends their dictations to the legal transcription company.  The legal transcription company then delegates their voice files to their transcribers who transcribes (listens and types out) the audios into a word processor.  These converted documents are then sent back to the law firm or solicitors.

Documents may include letters, reports, interrogations, interviews, conferences, memos, etc. 

You might be familiar with medical transcription, but its not the only branch of transcription.  We have legal transcription, business transcription, conference transcription, media transcription, etc.

 As a job or career, transcription is a worthwhile option to look at.  Anyone good with English grammar and comprehension has the potential to be a transcriber.  But, to excel one needs good typing speed, ability to follow instructions, a lot of common sense, an eye for details and thoroughness.

An excellent transcriber can easily go freelance and work from home.  Starting up one's own business in transcription is another option.
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