Our dedicated Arabic transcriptionists blend linguistic expertise with cultural sensitivity to deliver accurate, rich transcription - quickly, accurately, and at a great price.
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Empower your research, your patients, and your community. Transcribe and translate Arabic interviews, medical records, and key media in more than 200 language combinations. From the campus to the newsroom, our Arabic transcriptionists and subject-expert Arabic translators will help you unlock, protect, and enfranchise your audience. Whether you’re preserving the records of business meetings or telling the stories of Middle Eastern people, our transcription services are here to help you.
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Media organisations, government departments, and private-sector clients across all industries depend on efficient transcriptionists to accurately and quickly put spoken words on paper, which is exactly why they turn to Absolute Translations. Our Arabic translators & transcriptionists are not just native speakers, they are also expert in various business verticals and markets. Meaning, when you require Arabic Transcriptions, we’ll match your project with an Arabic transcriber who has a specialisation relevant to your industry sector! Choose from a range of transcription options including transcription only, transcription and translation, and transcription directly into the target language.
We have provided Arabic Transcription services for major news outlets, government bodies and global businesses, so whether you are recording meeting minutes, or filing interviews and copy, you can rely on us to ensure your words are written down correctly. Plus, our unique ISO 17100:2015 certification, which is awarded only to linguistic service providers of the highest quality, is your guarantee that we’ll always deliver the best standard of work for the most affordable prices. And, renowned for our fast service, with Absolute Translations documenting your materials, you’ll always meet deadlines.
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I want to thank Mattia and his team for being so brilliant. I needed some documents translated from English into French quickly, and they was able to meet the deadline. There were quite a few documents and required a professional level of translation with certification. At all times, Mattia was helpful, courteous and responsive. I definitely recommend this company.
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Arabic is one of the most challenging languages to transcribe for several reasons, including its fast pace, illogical sentence structure and unusual pronunciation thanks to its 28 phonemes (pronounced letters) compared to English’s only 21.
What’s more, Arabic is spoken with so many different accents, pitches, inflections and dialects making transcribing it a difficult and lengthy process, which most transcriptionists won’t have the skillset to do well.
Transcribers need to be fast and accurate, and they need to know and understand the language they are working on, which is why we only employ native-speaking Arabic translators and transcribers with an outstanding level of linguistic competency.
Arabic is spoken throughout the Arab World, but there are many different regional dialects depending on where people come from.
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA.) also known as Classical Arabic, is a standardised and modern dialect of the Arabic language used in writing and in most formal speech. It is based on the Classical Arabic that was used in the Qur’an and Umayyad and Abbasid texts from the 7th century, but it also retains traces of older pronunciations.
MSA is mandatory for official purposes in many Arab nations, and when transcribing in Arabic, it’s important to be aware of the different levels of Arabic, since Modern Standard Arabic is used in newspapers, official documents and texts.
MSA is the most widely spoken dialect of Arabic. It is taught in universities around the globe and it is the only written and spoken form of Arabic that is understood throughout the Arab-speaking world without additional study or training.
By using MSA in your business communications, you will enhance the prestige of your company’s communications and demonstrate respect for your customers’ culture.
Arabic is a beautiful, rich and intriguing language that’s spoken throughout North Africa and the Middle East. It’s also a language that comes with its own set of unique challenges. Many facets of this language make it difficult to transcribe, read and translate.
Arabic is a so-called ‘script’ language. It’s a whole different mindset and a new way to approach everything from names and numbers to conversations and speeches. It is also a language that is written from right to left making it stand out among the other languages spoken in the world today.
Arabic writing is an art in which the letters are not joined together like they are when you write in English. Arabic also has three different sounds for each letter, depending on when it is pronounced. This is especially difficult for people who do not know the language well or who are used to writing in English. When writing in Arabic, the spacing between words needs to be adjusted; otherwise, they may run into one another and create confusion when reading them back.
The complicated nature of this language is exactly why finding the right agency for your Arabic transcription and translation projects is crucial.
Arabic is a beautiful, deeply cultural and historically important language that is spoken by the approximate 350 million people across 29 countries and over 400 million speakers across the globe. With this incredible number of people, it’s essential to provide them with information in their own language.
It has been described as the fastest growing language in the world, making it a prime candidate for global integration. The use of Arabic in business is also growing significantly which is why you need professional Arabic Transcription Services to ensure your business, government and private sector organisations meet their Arabic translation and transcription needs and that your core trademarks, services and product names are completely transliterated into Arabic script correctly.
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