Outsource Transcription Services – Tamara Bentzur

Supported audio formats for transcription without need for conversion:

• WAV
• MP3
• DCT (Encrypted dictation)
• RA (RealAudio)
• RM (RealAudio)
• SRI (Voicelt)
• DSS (Olympus, Lanier and Grundig)
• AU
• AIF
• MSV (Not all recorders are supported)
• DVF (Not all recorders are supported)
• MP2
• VOX
• COMPRESSED WAVE (Including PCM, uLaw, ALaw, ADPCM, CELP, SBC, WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, DSP TrueSpeech, GSM 6.10)
• PHILLIPS Digital Recorder format
• SONY Digital Recorder format

Unsupported audio files that need conversion prior to transcription:

* Copy protected files are not supported

• MPGA (MPEG Audio)
• AIFF
• RAW
• OGG
• FLAC
• AMR
• WMA*
• WMV*
• AAC* (not aacPlus)
• M4A*
• MID (General MIDI only)
• ACT/RCD/REC (newer version of format not supported)
• SHN
• CDA
• AVI
• MPG/MPEG

Supported video files for transcription without need for conversion:

• QuickTime Movies (or those supported by Apple QuickTime)
• MPEG1, MPEG2, and MPEG 4
• MP3, AIFF, and WAV
• Most AVI
• Windows Media files (WMA and WMV) or files supported by Windows Media Player
• MPEG 2 Transport Stream – Used by Blu-ray and Digital TV sources
• MPEG 1 – mostly used by VCD
• Motion JPEG– used by digital cameras, surveillance systems and other portable devices
• DV – used by DV-tape camcoders and cameras
• H263 – used for videoconferencing and flash video content
• VC1 – used for HD DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and Windows Media Video 9.
• Indeo 3 – used for the compression of television-quality video
• Huffyuv – a lossless video codec
• Smacker – used in computer games, supports only 256 colors and includes transparency support.

If  video conversion is necessary the following are file formats that can be converted from:

Video formats that can be decompressed from:

• AVI
• WMV
• ASF
• MPG
• MPEG
• MPE
• VOB
• MOV
• 3GP
• MP4
• M4V
• FLV
• MKV
• MOD
• OGM
• DV
• DIVX

Video compression types that can be decompressed from:

• MPEG 4 – most common video compression type
• DivX – variation of MPEG 4
• Xvid – freeware variation of MPEG 4
• Windows Media – compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft
• H264 – the most advanced implementaion of MPEG4 standard
• MPEG 2 Program Stream (VOB) – Used by DVD
• MPEG 2 Transport Stream – Used by Blu-ray and Digital TV sources
• MPEG 1 – mostly used by VCD
• Motion JPEG– used by digital cameras, surveillance systems and other portable devices
• DV – used by DV-tape camcoders and cameras
• H263 – used for videoconferencing and flash video content
• VC1 – used for HD DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and Windows Media Video 9.
• Indeo 3 – used for the compression of television-quality video