Gujarati 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. Either way, sibilant spelling is checked against the word, not guessed from the sound. Your project manager confirms the format against your end use.

Because શ and ષ sound the same in modern Gujarati — [ʃ] — and a speech tool only has the sound to go on. It can guess the more common letter and be wrong on every word that happens to use the other one. A native transcriber recognises the word itself, not just its sound, and spells it the way that word is actually spelled.

It matters to spelling, which matters to anyone reading the transcript. વિષય ('subject') and વિશે ('about') open with an identical sound and are spelled with different letters; get the wrong one and the document is misspelled even though it would sound right read aloud. In legal, academic or corporate material full of Sanskrit-derived terms, that adds up to a document that looks careless.

Yes, to the standard spelling of each word, not to what the syllable sounds like on its own. Gujarati's script keeps three sibilant letters from Sanskrit even though speech only makes the one sound for two of them, so getting proper names and formal vocabulary right depends on knowing the word. We check it and tell you if a name in your file has more than one accepted spelling.

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. So does how much vocabulary the audio carries that needs checking rather than guessing. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Gujarati 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 name or a spelling. 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. Gujarati script is delivered in Unicode so it displays correctly wherever it lands. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.