Working together with our experienced and qualified translators, voiceover artists, interpreters, audiovisual translators, transcribers and subtitlers, we offer a wide range of language services.
Available in over 200 languages within the UK and beyond, our linguists can get you heard in any language of your choice. While we do not offer a walk-in service, we are only one phone call away from discussing your language requirements.
Accurate Urdu transcription service for universities
As an academic, if you are not accustomed to transcribing, we know how time-consuming it can be. Without sounding boastful, we are bound to be faster and more accurate than you could be. It is, after all, what our experienced team of Urdu transcriptionists do every day. They have the equipment, fast typing speeds and a perfectionist’s desire to capture every last word.
Working from audio or video material, our transcriptionists, audio typists and copy typists can produce verbatim transcripts where every word is recorded, or intelligent verbatim transcripts where any unnecessary utterances are excluded.
We have native-speaking teams covering over 200 languages.
Our amazing Urdu team can also prepare material for discourse analysis. Discourse analysis is a time-consuming exercise for a university researcher. While we can use special software to prepare a transcript for discourse analysis, including the speaker turns etc, we can also provide a budget-friendly and therefore student-friendly solution. By providing a straightforward verbatim transcript in Word, we can save you valuable time. You can simply edit the transcript and add any necessary elements yourself if this suits you best. Speaker labels can be included as can time codes, depending on your requirement.
Our university clients trust us as their language-support partner to produce excellent quality multilanguage transcripts on time and within budget.
Who are our Urdu transcriptionists?
They are all human for a start! Unless absolutely specified by a client as part of the scope of a particular project, all of our transcriptions are carried out by humans rather than by machine. Our transcriptionists are native speakers. They pay attention to detail and will always do the research to try and establish any unusual spellings, brand names, places or people. Any extra information, glossary or lists of participants you can supply when you commission the work with us, is always very welcome.
On average our Urdu transcriptionists can type at a speed of 50 words per minute and will follow any required formatting instructions.
We assign a project manager to every assignment to ensure the project runs smoothly and is delivered on time and within budget.
Just let us know how we can help you.
What sort of academic material do our Urdu transcriptionists handle?
- Lectures
- Academic research material
- Theses
- Interviews
- Academic focus groups
- Seminars
Which academic organisations do we already work with?
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Bangor University
- Northumbria University
- Southampton University
- Essex University
- Cambridge University
- Cardiff University
- University of Denver
- Middlesex University
- University of Oxford
- University of Hertfordshire
- City University
- Durham University
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Edge Hill University
- Birmingham University
- Loughborough University
- Manchester University
- Derby University
- Hertfordshire University
- University of North Carolina
- University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Gordon University
- University of East London
- City University
- Portsmouth University
- University of Southern California
- University of Warwick
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Exeter
- University of Worcester
- University of Hong Kong
- Utah University
Academic discount
If you are currently a student or member of the academic staff at a university, or you are based at another academic institution, you may be interested to know that we offer an academic discount for our transcription services.
How is the cost for Urdu transcription calculated?
- The number of minutes in the source file(s)
- The volume
- The number of speakers
- The subject matter
- Formatting requirements
- Frequency of any time code
Get in touch with one of our lovely project managers and they would be very happy to discuss all the available options with you.
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While you’re here… some quite interesting facts about the Urdu language
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language with about 104 million speakers, including those who speak it as a second language. It is the national language of Pakistan and is closely related to and mutually intelligible with Hindi, though a lot of Urdu vocabulary comes from Persian and Arabic, while Hindi contains more vocabulary from Sanskrit. Linguists consider Standard Urdu and Standard Hindi to be different formal registers both derived from the Khari Boli dialect, which is also known as Hindustani. At an informal spoken level there are few significant differences between Urdu and Hindi and they could be considered varieties a single language. Urdu is also spoken in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Fiji, Germany, Guyana, India, Malawi, Mauritius, Nepal, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, the UAE, the UK and Zambia. Urdu has been written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script since the 12th century and is normally written in Nastaliq style. The word Urdu is Turkish for ‘foreign’ or ‘horde’. Courtesy of Omniglot
Pakistan and India (Jammu and Kashmir, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Telangana). Urdu is a recognised minority language in South Africa.