Greek transcription services

Clean read suits corporate video, interviews for publication and anything heading for translation: filler words and false starts come out, meaning stays. Verbatim is what legal proceedings, compliance material and research interviews need, because every utterance and pause is on the record. Your project manager confirms the choice, and the accentuation system, against your end use.

Because it is trained overwhelmingly on modern, everyday monotonic text and defaults to it regardless of source. It has no way to recognise that a recording of a church service or a reading of an older legal document calls for the polytonic system instead. That call depends on knowing what kind of material is on the recording, which is a judgement, not a pattern match.

Yes, for the material where it applies. A monotonic Greek transcript of church liturgy or an older legal reading looks stripped of a register that belongs to it. Everyday corporate or broadcast content, by contrast, is monotonic by convention since the 1982 reform, and setting it in polytonic would look dated rather than correct.

For most content, yes — Standard Modern Greek reads correctly on either side, so one file usually covers both markets. Where content is aimed specifically at a Cypriot audience and the register is informal, we raise it at the brief. The monotonic-or-polytonic decision above applies equally to either market and is set by what the material is, not by which country it is for.

There is no flat rate, because no two files take the same work. Runtime, recording quality, how many people are talking, your deadline and whether you also need an English version all move the figure, and so does whether the material needs the polytonic system rather than the modern default. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Greek transcriber who has signed an NDA, and nothing is put through public speech-to-text services at any point. If you have your own confidentiality agreement we sign it, if you have retention rules we work to them, and if your policy says the audio goes once the transcript is approved, we delete it.

It is normal work. Phone audio, site noise, focus groups and meetings where three people speak at once all get transcribed. What difficult audio changes is time, and occasionally certainty about a word boundary or a name. We listen to a sample first and tell you straight what we expect to be able to capture, rather than handing you a file peppered with inaudible tags.

In whatever the next step needs: plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or your own template, with timecodes and speaker labels set the way you want them. Greek is delivered in Unicode, with the correct accentuation system for the source material, so it displays correctly wherever the file lands. Tell us what the transcript is for and we format it for that.