Thai 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, government material and research interviews need, because every utterance is on the record. Either way, if the recording uses the royal or monastic vocabulary, that register is kept exactly as spoken, never paraphrased into everyday Thai. Your project manager confirms the choice against your end use.

Because rachasap isn't a variation on ordinary Thai, it's a separate set of words for the same actions: eating is กิน day to day, เสวย for the king. A tool trained mainly on everyday spoken Thai either misses the specialised term entirely or hears it and defaults to the common word, which quietly changes who the sentence is actually about. A native transcriber tracks the register sentence by sentence instead.

No. Rachasap covers the wider royal family and aristocracy, and a related register, built mostly from Khmer loanwords, is used to talk to or about Buddhist monks. A single recording can move between three registers — everyday, royal, monastic — within a few sentences, and each shift is a decision about who is being discussed, not a change of topic.

One native Thai transcriber works the file from start to finish rather than splitting it between people, and a second linguist checks the transcript against the audio specifically for register, alongside the usual accuracy pass. Where the speaker changes register mid-recording, we keep the change rather than smoothing it out, because it is usually there on purpose.

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. Material that mixes registers, or where royal vocabulary needs checking for accuracy, takes more editorial attention than a straightforward interview. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Thai 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's normal work. Site audio, panel discussions, phone recordings 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 name. We listen to a sample first and tell you straight what we expect to be able to capture, rather than handing you a file full of guesses.

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. Thai 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, not for us.