European Spanish transcription services

Leísmo is using le instead of lo as a direct object pronoun for a man — saying le vi rather than lo vi. It's common across central and northern Spain, and the RAE's own style guide says it is not considered incorrect for a masculine singular person. It matters because a transcriber who silently changes every le to lo is rewriting what was said, not fixing an error.

Either is defensible, so we ask before transcription starts rather than deciding case by case. Verbatim work usually keeps what was said, including accepted leísmo; a polished document for publication may prefer the etymological lo. We apply whichever you choose consistently across the whole file and note it on delivery.

No, and that's exactly why it needs a linguist rather than a blanket rule. The RAE accepts le for a masculine singular person but explicitly rejects it for a feminine referent or a plural one. A transcriber checks gender and number case by case rather than treating every le the same way.

This specific pattern, yes — it's a feature of Peninsular Spanish, strongest in the centre and north of the country. Recordings from Latin America carry a different set of regional features, which is why we transcribe European and Latin American Spanish as separate briefs with separate native transcribers, rather than treating Spanish as one undifferentiated variety.

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 Spanish 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. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.