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Audio
Recording Tips
To improve
recording quality and get more cost-effective and accurate transcripts:
- Test your
recording equipment
- Use an
external microphone
- Place
microphone near your speaker
- Ask your
subject to speak up
- Ask multiple
subjects to speak one at a time
- Don't
use microcassettes
- Use fastest
recording speed
- Record
in the mid-range of the recording volume
- Record
in a quiet place
- Shut off
voice activation features
- Use new
brand-name tapes
- Use shorter
tapes or record only on one side
- Rewind
and label tape including total running time if known
VHS
Please send us VHS single audio channel window dubs using standard, not
extended play.
All material
received by Perfect Pages is held in strict confidentiality.
NOTE: Perfect
Pages is not liable for accidental loss of information on magnetic storage
media, such as diskettes or tapes. We recommend you do not send us original
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What
we’ll need to know to
complete your project:
- Contact
Info (Name, company name, address, phone, etc.)
- Billing information (address, job or P.O. number, any special requirements)
- What
kind of content are you sending (e.g., interview, presentation, group,
finished video), on what media (e.g., video tape, standard
audio, microcassette, DVD, CD, digital file format), and when can
we expect it?
- E-mail
address
- Due Date
- If interview,
may questions be paraphrased?
- If presentation,
would you like transcription to be “Verbatim” or “Smooth”?
- Verbatim includes
false starts, stutters and non-verbal sounds such as “uh,” “um…” — useful
when the tape is to be edited.
- Smooth eliminates
the non-verbal sounds and stutters, but may include false starts
— useful if transcript is to be published.
- How would
you like tapes returned (Fed Ex, Messenger, US Mail, other) OR may
we recycle them?
For even
better transcripts please provide:
- Names
of subjects/interviewees
- List
of technical terms
- Brand
names
- Place
names
- Acronyms
- Number
of people speaking (for audio recordings only)
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