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Mainly through the verb, not word order. Tagalog reference grammar describes how affixes on the verb assign the grammatical focus: one marks the actor, another marks the one acted on, others mark different roles again. Kumain and kinain share the same root and describe the same event; the affix is what tells you whether the subject ate or was eaten.

Often not, because Tagalog frequently doesn't state both participants by name. Reference grammars note a strong preference for no more than one full noun phrase per clause in Philippine languages generally, so once the people involved are established, later sentences may carry no names at all — just the verb, doing the work alone.

The sentence keeps its grammar and changes its facts. Mishearing the actor-focus affix for the one that marks who was acted on, or the reverse, swaps subject and object in a sentence where no name was there to catch the error. The transcript reads fluently and says the opposite of what happened.

It's sharpest there, because scripted or written Filipino tends to spell out both participants more often. Interviews, depositions and recorded conversation are exactly where names get dropped once established, leaving the verb affix as the only marker left — which is also precisely the content most likely to end up as a transcript.

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 verb affix is read correctly. 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. Fast, elided conversational audio, where the verb affix is doing more of the work, takes longer than a scripted piece to camera. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

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