Sinhala 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 the grammar it was spoken in are on the record. Either way we confirm formal or colloquial Sinhala before typing starts. Your project manager checks the choice against your end use.

More than tone. A peer-reviewed study of the two varieties shows formal Sinhala keeps subject-verb agreement in person, number and gender and uses eight grammatical cases, while colloquial Sinhala drops that agreement and works with six cases. The verb and the noun endings genuinely change shape between the two, not just the choice of words.

Not to the same degree as formal Sinhala. The same academic study describes formal Sinhala as standardised through grammars, dictionaries and canonical texts, while colloquial Sinhala is rarely standardised and has little written precedent to fall back on. A transcriber working in colloquial Sinhala is often deciding conventions the written standard has not already fixed.

Not reliably. The two varieties differ in grammar, not just vocabulary, and a speech tool has no way to apply the right agreement pattern or case system for whichever one was actually spoken. A native Sinhala transcriber who works across both registers makes that call from the audio, and a second linguist checks it 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 whether the brief needs formal-register grammar applied to colloquial speech, which takes more than a straightforward verbatim pass. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Sinhala 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 or a case ending. 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, in the register agreed at the brief. Sinhala 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.