Listening isn’t always easy!
Foreign language transcription is the process of taking spoken words on an audio or video recording in one language and converting them into written text in another language. Here are some recent transcriptions we’ve worked on: Languages: Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin, & English Date: January 2018 Click on the image above for more information! Not all oral languages have a long history of developing side-by-side with their written counterparts. This poses an additional difficulty for transcribers when, like in Yoruba, there is a vast difference between written-literary Yoruba and the slang or common/spoken Yoruba. Add to that 200 possible sub-dialects, a…
