Kannada 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 aspirated consonants are checked against a word's origin before delivery. Your project manager confirms the format against your end use.

Because they mark a word's origin more than its sound. Kannada's aspirated letters are almost all confined to Sanskrit loanwords, and Wikipedia notes that many speakers do not clearly aspirate them even in words that carry the aspirated spelling. So the correct letter often depends on knowing the word came from Sanskrit, not on hearing the aspiration in the recording.

Yes, and it happens even in native vocabulary. The number nine is attested both as ombattu, with a plain consonant, and ombhattu, with the aspirated one, and neither spelling is forced by the sound alone. It is one of the clearer examples of a Kannada spelling choice that a transcriber makes rather than simply hears.

Not reliably, especially for loanwords many speakers don't clearly aspirate in casual speech. A tool working from sound alone has no way to know a word's Sanskrit origin when the audio itself doesn't signal it. A native Kannada transcriber recognises the word and applies its established spelling, checked by a second linguist before delivery.

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 Sanskrit-derived vocabulary the audio carries, since that needs checking rather than guessing. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Kannada 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. Kannada 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.