Public Sector Transcription Services

What is public sector transcription?

Transcription services are hugely beneficial to all areas of the public sector, such as local authorities, the judiciary department, healthcare or education bodies. Our public sector transcription can take a number of different forms. Copy typing involves quick transcription of handwritten notes, reports and correspondence, which can save you valuable time and resources. Document amendment and reformatting can be conducted on leases or agreements with handwritten amendments, which we will apply in your house style and return. We also offer document conversation, which allows PDF files to be reformatted as Microsoft Word documents.

Public sector transcription services can also extend to turning recordings from meetings or conferences into minutes, or even turning these minutes into full reports, no matter the number of speakers. The role also requires a good deal of cultural awareness and sensitivity in order to tailor accurate translations towards different target audiences.

As with transcription in any industry, public sector transcription services require a great deal of sector-specific language and understanding from those conducting it. Certain legally-focussed public sector meetings regarding child protection or employment rights will require the use of complex terminology which will be unfamiliar to more general transcription services.

Furthermore, human transcription will always have the edge over machine transcription in these situations, as speech recognition software will not always be able to pick up the subtleties and nuances that a real life transcription team take as second nature. Public sector transcription relies heavily on a comprehension of context and particular language which is best understood through years of experience within local government.