E-ging Solutions is a world-leading Shanghai translation company with specialties in transcrip translation.

If your company is in need of transcript translation services, or works with transcripts that may be presented in a foreign language and need translation, there are several things you can do to ensure that the entire process runs as smoothly as possible. You want the best end product you can possibly get. Who wouldn’t? By paying attention to a few transcript translation details now, you (and your employees) will be in a great position when it’s time to work with the translated material.

To begin with, it’s important to define what a transcript actually is. A true written transcript is a document that has been adapted from an audio, video, or live source (like a court transcript written by a court stenographer) and then turned into a written document.

Good, now that you know what a transcript is, you should also know a little bit about how transcript translation services generally approach their transcripts. You’ll have to decide if you want absolutely everything in your transcript translated, including broken speech and incomplete sentences (sadly, we don’t always speak in perfect, complete sentences), or if you’d prefer a more polished up version of the original transcript.

Transcript translation services typically divide their products up into categories like verbatim transcript and smart or intelligent transcript translations. Basically a verbatim translation means every single word is translated, while a “smart” or “edited” transcript translation (or whatever the agency prefers to call it) is cut down so that repeated and redundant material is edited out. The sentence and overall document structures are streamlined for a more coherent and readable translation.

One of the most important things to remember before you hand over any transcript for translation is to be sure of what kind of transcript translation your company needs. Once you know that, your qualified transcript translation service can do all of the rest.