Sample Formats How to Order
IMT can, at your request, fully customize the format of your transcript at no extra charge. All of our transcripts are created in MS Word and returned to our clients as email attachments.
Below are some examples of possible formats that can be used. Or, if you prefer, we are happy to customize the transcript to your specifications.
STYLE A: Our Default
(Verdana 11 pt. font with bolded speaker names)
Steve: Hey, did you hear about that new online transcription service?
Dave: No, tell me all about it!
Steve: Yeah, they just launched a new website called IMTranscription.com. They claim that they can produce audio transcripts which are both accurate and affordable.
Dave: So, have you tried them yet?
Steve: Not yet, but I have a few YouTube videos I'd really like to see in
text form.
Dave: But that's only 6 or 7 minutes. Most transcription companies probably expect at least an hour of audio to make it worth their while.
Steve: Well, they said on their website that no job was too small.
Dave: Hey, that's great. Why don't you give them a try with one of your YouTube videos and see how it goes. And then let me know, because I
have lots of audio sitting around waiting to be converted to text.
Steve: You got it! I'll email them tomorrow, and then get back to you when I see the finished product.
STYLE B
(Verdana 11 pt. font with bolded and colored speaker names)
Steve: Hey, I checked out their “Sample Formats” page, and they have about 7 or 8 different styles we can choose from.
Dave: Is that right? You’re talking about IMTranscription.com, right?
Steve: That’s right. They have all the styles displayed there.
Dave: What if we want something a little different? Can they customize the look for us?
Steve: Absolutely! We can have it any way we want.
Dave: So, how much do they charge extra for this little customization convenience?
Steve: They don’t; it’s all included in the same price.
Dave: Cool.
STYLE C
(Verdana 11 pt. font with bolded speaker names and blocked text)
| Dave: |
What do they call this style? |
| Steve: |
They call it Style C. IMTranscription.com can set the left and right indents to any position that we want. I think Abraham Lincoln might have approved. |
| Abe Lincoln: | Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
STYLE D
(Arial 12 pt. font with bolded speaker names)
Dave: Does IMTranscription.com ever use any other font but Verdana?
Steve: Sure, how about Arial? Actually, they’ll transcribe in any font that you want. Just let them know.
Dave: Well, I’ve always liked Tahoma.
Steve: That’s no problem at all.
Dave: What about Times New Roman? The New York Times seems to do pretty well with it.
Steve: Yup, that’s coming up next, right after (Arial) Style E below.
STYLE E
(Arial 12 pt. font with bolded, colored 13 pt. font speaker names)
Steve: This is the same font as above (Arial), but the speaker names have been colored and made a little larger.
Dave: Can they italicize the speaker names for us? I’ve seen that done before.
Steve: Sure! They can italicize them, bold them, enlarge them, and even make them a different font altogether from the rest of the text.
Dave: Does anyone else do this kind of customization?
Steve: Maybe if you pay them extra....
Dave: Is that Times New Roman I see below?
Steve: Yes, it is.
STYLE F
(Times New Roman 12 pt. font with bolded speaker names)
Dave: So, is this a Times New Roman format?
Steve: Yes, this is about as basic as it gets. Of course, they can customize the transcript any way we want. So, for example, we could have a larger 13 pt. font text and colored speaker names. Also, we could have our speaker names italicized and a little bit (or a lot) larger than the rest of the text.
Dave: How would all that look?
Steve: Check it out below!
STYLE G
(Times New Roman 13 pt. font with bolded, colored, italicized 14 pt. font speaker names)
(There is extra space between the speaker names and the text.)
Dave: So, this text is a larger version of the Times New Roman font. I see that the speaker names are just a little bit bigger than the rest of the text, too.
Steve: That’s right. Some people find the larger text easier to read.
Dave: Well, I guess that’s about all of the styles that they have listed on this page.
Steve: Yes, but remember, these are just a few samples. They can (and will) customize our transcripts any way that we want them.
Dave: Sounds good to me! Where do we start?
