‘Tis the Season (for Transcription!)

It’s the middle of November. Dean Martin is serenading you as you make your frantic appearances at your local mass merchandiser to grab this year’s Red Ryder BB Gun. While you’ve expertly picked every toy off the shelf to please the little ones in your life, have you stopped to think about everyone else?

I don’t know about you, but my grandmother and my father are two of the hardest people to buy for. Consequently, they’re also the most amazing people to have ever lived (but that’s neither here nor there), so every year I try to think of something that is worthy of them. They’re the kind of people that never want anything, I’m sure you know a few people like that. Close out your Pinterest tabs, and take a brief journey with me. This year, why not take the time to capture some family memories to present to your entire family through transcription?

Stay with me here, this will all make sense. Allow me to get a little personal. My grandmother (or Nonna, because she was an Italian queen), passed away three years ago. She was the stereotypical Italian grandmother that took care of her entire family, her neighborhood, her friends, friends of friends of friends, and such…so when she passed, my entire family, and so many around us, suffered a huge blow.

A couple of months later I was going through old voicemails on my cell phone before I upgraded, and came across one I had saved from her inviting me over for Sunday dinner in her beautiful broken English. I was terrified to lose that so I uploaded the call to Speechpad to preserve it. I later shared this with my family and it began some incredible conversation and memory sharing that I will hold dear to my heart for life.

Why should you care? Recording a call or sitting down with your living relatives and recording a conversation could be the best gift imaginable. This Thanksgiving, sit down with your grandfather that was a POW or your grandmother that was a seamstress while raising her 6 siblings (her name was Antonietta and she raised her siblings from the age of 7). Ask questions that someday you’ll want to share with your children and they’ll want to share with theirs. Upload them and allow us to transcribe your most dear and precious memories. We promise we’ll treat them with the utmost care.

• Make a book out of the transcript, we offer several different formats and are happy to help with any special requests.
• If it’s a short conversation, frame it and distribute it to your family.
• We can clean up the conversation so it’s crisp with clean copy transcription, or we can help you preserve those sweet nuances and slang by transcribing every word with verbatim transcription.
• Have family that speaks another language? We can translate for you too!

Let us help you make some fun, one of a kind memories to share for many, many years.