Brazilian Portuguese transcription services

It's the spelling reform that unified Portuguese across Brazil, Portugal and the other Portuguese-speaking countries, and it has been mandatory in Brazil since 1 January 2016. It matters now because plenty of reference material, templates and older transcripts still use the pre-2016 spelling, which a document written today is no longer supposed to follow.

Three things transcribers watch for: the trema over u was dropped from words like linguiça and cinquenta, most differential accents disappeared so pára became para, and hyphens were removed in cases such as contra-regra becoming contrarregra and auto-estrada becoming autoestrada. None of it changed pronunciation, only spelling.

Closer, not identical. The Agreement allows optional double spellings for words that are pronounced differently in each variety, but Brazil's official vocabulary, the VOLP published by the Academia Brasileira de Letras, fixes one accepted Brazilian spelling rather than leaving the choice open the way some cases still are in Portugal. We transcribe to the Brazilian standard specifically, not a blended one.

For reference, yes; for anything issued or reissued today, it should be brought up to the current standard, particularly for legal, educational or official use where the older spelling can read as non-compliant rather than simply dated. We can update an existing transcript to the current standard on request.

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 against your end use.

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. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise, and we come back with an exact number once we have seen a sample.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Brazilian Portuguese 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.

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, and written to the current Brazilian spelling standard throughout. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.