Slovak 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 the spelling follows the standard word list, not a guess, so the two read differently but say the same thing. Your project manager confirms the choice.

Because after certain consonants — b, m, p, r, s, v, z among them — the two letters sound identical, and the correct one depends on which specific word is being written, not on anything audible. Software trained on frequency and phonetics has no way to apply a fixed list of pattern words the way a native speaker who learned them at school does.

Yes. Byť, spelled with y, means to be or to exist. Biť, spelled with i, means to strike or hit. The two are homonyms: identical when spoken, opposite in meaning. Get the wrong one into a transcript of testimony, an interview or an internal complaint, and the sentence describes a completely different action from the one that was actually said.

By knowing the word, not by listening harder. Slovak orthography assigns each affected word to a fixed pattern group, set out in the Pravidlá slovenského pravopisu, and our transcribers are trained against that list rather than against pronunciation. Where a recording is genuinely ambiguous, a second native Slovak linguist checks the choice against context 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, and so does how much careful word-by-word checking the audio demands. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Slovak 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 word boundary. 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. Slovak diacritics — ľ, š, č, ô and the rest — are delivered in Unicode so they display correctly wherever the file lands. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.