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Butterflies Secretarial Solutions prefer digital audio but also accepts mini and micro cassettes.  Digital files can be emailed or uploaded securely via the internet.

Benefits of Digital

Digital voice recorders are becoming hugely popular in the business world. Digital offers far greater clarity than analogue (cassettes) and also easy storage options. Files are easily sorted, electronically filed and can be backed-up.

Digital voice recorders can be used for:

· Meetings

· focus groups

· Interviews

· Single speaker dictation

Additional benefits include:

· No lost or chewed cassettes

· No accidental erasure of cassettes

· No postage/courier costs for transfer
of cassettes

· Less hardware maintenance and replacement time is much longer for a digital recorder compared to a cassette dictation machine.

Transcription Time

Transcribing an hour of audio can take between 2 and 5 hours. The reasons for this include:

· Background noise

· Multiple voices (e.g. a meeting environment or focus group)

· Heavy accents

· Use of industry specific terminology

Help Minimise Transcription Time

· Speak slower than usual (single speaker)

· Speak clearly

· Minimise background noise (e.g. don’t interview in a café or lunch room)

· Identify different speakers

· Minimise jargon

· Spell unusual words and/or names

Fees

For information on fees for transcription, please email us or fill in our online contact form.

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Fees, information and policies are current as at September 2008 and subject to change without notice.

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