All by Neil

What is the best way to record phone/remote interviews?

We have a lot of experience in transcribing phone interviews and as technology has progressed over the last few years, it’s been easy to hear by the increasing overall quality of the recordings we receive. There is still very much a spectrum of recording methods however, so we thought it was a good time to share our experience of how to work best with your transcription company to get useful transcripts from these interviews.

Why do I hate the sound of my own voice?

It’s the most common refrain we see online related to people doing their own transcribing, or their reason for paying someone else to do the transcription they’ve been putting off.

A number of articles have been written on the phenomenon known as ‘voice confrontation’ and I’ll dig out some nuggets from them later on, but first I’d like to throw my own anecdote in…