Uzbek transcription services

No. Southern Uzbek, spoken in northern Afghanistan, is written in the Perso-Arabic script rather than the Latin alphabet used in Uzbekistan, and its loanwords come from Dari rather than Russian. A transcriber who only works in the Uzbekistan standard cannot simply write down what they hear — the script and much of the borrowed vocabulary are different. We ask where the audio was recorded before assigning it, and match Afghan material to a transcriber who works in that script and register.

Because the two forms of Uzbek are close enough in speech that accent alone will not flag the problem — a transcriber can understand every word and still write the wrong script or the wrong term for a borrowed concept. Ethnologue lists Southern Uzbek as written in Arabic script, separate from the Latin standard of Uzbekistan, and that is a decision made before transcription starts, not corrected afterwards.

It is transcribed as the word actually used, not swapped for its Uzbekistan-Russian equivalent. Southern Uzbek has absorbed vocabulary from Dari, the local Persian variety, where the Uzbek of Uzbekistan absorbed the same kinds of terms from Russian. A transcriber unfamiliar with Dari-influenced usage can mistake a correct term for a mispronunciation and 'correct' it into the wrong word entirely.

We can transliterate if your project needs a single script across markets, but we flag it as a conversion rather than a straight transcription, because Perso-Arabic and Latin Uzbek do not map one to one and some editorial judgement is involved. Tell us the destination — internal use, subtitling, translation — and we will recommend whether to keep the source script or convert it.

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 script and vocabulary follow the source recording, not a default. 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. So does which Uzbek variety the audio is in — Afghan material in Perso-Arabic script takes different editorial decisions than Uzbekistan's Latin standard. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Uzbek 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 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 inaudible tags.