Research Transcription

Research Transcription
  • Interview Transcription
  • Focus Group Transcription

No matter what subject you're researching, Sterling Transcription can help you free up your time for more important things than typing - like the analysis.

From one-on-one interviews to complex focus groups, Sterling Transcription will transcribe your audio recordings quickly and professionally.

More time for the analysis

Currently Sterling Transcription works with over 200 research schools in the UK and internationally. We have clients from a diverse range of disciplines, such as business, economics, agriculture, heath, criminology, education and law.

There are many benefits to using Sterling Transcription for your research typing. We quote using a fixed price per minute of recorded audio, allowing you to cater for your grant application - we can even arrange a pre-payment for budgeting purposes. If you prefer, we are able to invoice your university or research association directly. Note that for individuals there may also be a saving on VAT.

Confidentiality

Sterling Transcription maintains the most stringent levels of confidentiality and website encryption to meet your ethics committee's standards. Additionally, we are able to provide transcripts in any format you require, for example, so that it can become input data for direct entry into analysis software such as NVivo or Leximancer.

Why Sterling Transcription?

We work with researchers on projects of any size and complexity, and accept all audio formats.

Our typists are experienced in the transcription of more difficult recordings, such as lengthy interviews, focus groups with varied accents or interviews with specialised terminology.

Matching the best transcriptionist to your file

All of our transcriptionists speak English as a first language. We work with transcriptionists from across the UK and Ireland, the rest of Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada, and will endeavour to match the best transcriptionist to your file. For example, if you require a transcription of a focus group based in Liverpool then we will try to ensure a Liverpudlian transcriptionist transcribes the file, ensuring accuracy of local knowledge and familiarity with local accents.

For More Information:

Please see our audio recording page for further information regarding digital recorders and audio recording tips. Feel free to contact us us on FREEPHONE 0800 910 1410 or email  for an immediate response to your enquiry.

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Interview and focus group transcription

It can be very difficult for academics and postgraduate students to find a good typist for their specialised research projects, so it makes sense to take advantage of Sterling Transcription's extensive typing pool and let us match the most experienced typist to your particular field of research. Then, all that is needed is to upload an audio recording from any standard digital device to your secure account on the Sterling Transcription website, and your documents will be returned to you in only a few days, ready for analysis.

NVivo and Leximancer compatibility

Sterling Transcription has NVivo and Leximancer trained typists, and can provide your transcripts in formats that are fully compatible with qualitative analysis software. This means that you can input them straight into the software, saving you time otherwise spent formatting documents that you can now put to better use. As an additional service for NVivo8 users, Sterling Transcription is even able to format documents in a specific way that allows automatic synchronisation with the audio when input into the software. Please see our NVivo compatibility brochure for more details.

Journalist interviews

Sterling Transcription works with journalists, including freelance journalists, to improve the efficiency and flexibility of their working day. Transcripts of interviews can be returned to journalists one or two days following the recording, allowing for strict deadlines and simplifying their workload.