Turkish transcription services

Because Turkish grammar is built by stacking suffixes onto a root rather than using separate words, and in fast or colloquial speech that whole chain can sound like one continuous sound. Deciding where the root ends and each suffix begins, and spelling every one of them correctly, is a grammatical judgement rather than something you can transcribe by ear alone. A native transcriber parses the word as it's spoken.

Vowel harmony is the rule that a suffix's vowel matches the vowel before it — ev becomes evlerden, not a mismatched form. It marks the boundary between root and suffix, but it doesn't resolve every case: loanwords like saat keep their own vowels and take non-harmonising suffixes (saatler), and some suffixes hold their vowel regardless of what precedes them. Spelling those correctly needs a linguist's judgement, not a rule applied mechanically.

Not reliably in fast, colloquial or accented speech. A generic engine hears a continuous sound and has to guess where the root ends and how many suffixes follow, and loanwords that break the usual vowel-harmony pattern make that guess harder still. We use native Turkish transcribers who parse the word grammatically as they hear it, and a second linguist checks the result against the audio.

Yes. A subtitler deciding where a line can break, or a translator matching a term to a glossary, needs the suffix boundaries settled correctly the first time. Get that wrong in the transcript and the error carries straight through to the subtitle file or the translated document. We segment it properly at the transcription stage, before it becomes anyone else's problem.

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 or colloquial speech with dense suffix chains takes more editorial time to parse correctly than a slow, scripted piece to camera. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Turkish 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. Phone audio, site noise, panel discussions and meetings where three people speak at once all get transcribed. What difficult audio changes is time, and occasionally certainty about a suffix boundary 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 peppered with 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. Turkish text is delivered in Unicode so every character 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.