100% Human services for guaranteed accuracy

Professional High-Quality Audio & Video Transcription Services

McGowan Transcriptions is the UK’s number one digital video and audio transcription agency and has been since 1993. We provide professional, confidential and accurate transcriptions to several different industries. These include research, medical, and legal professions, where quality control and security are paramount. 

We have a wealth of experience across recordings of all types and have a highly experienced team of transcriptionists, typists and translators to call upon. Whether it’s focus groups and interviews or closed captions for video and internal business hearings, we have everything you may need.

We deliver transcripts of the highest quality, every time. Here are some of the things that we can help you with:

• Digital Audio Transcriptions
• Video Transcriptions
• Focus Group Transcription Services
• Medical Transcriptions
• Interview Transcription Services
• Market Research Transcription Services
• Closed Caption Transcriptions
• Legal Transcriptions
• Complex Transcription
• Research Transcription Services
• Custom Transcription – don’t see what you need on our site? Get in touch to see if we can help you out.

AI Transcription or Human Transcription – Which Do You Need?

Automated transcription has improved enormously. For quick meeting notes, straightforward recordings or situations where an approximate record is enough, AI transcription can be a useful and cost-effective tool. 

But sometimes “roughly right” isn’t right enough. 

When a transcript is being used for qualitative research, legal proceedings, healthcare, an investigation, detailed analysis or another purpose where the words and context matter, accuracy becomes far more important. 

That’s where human transcription still makes the difference. 

Why choose human transcription? 

At McGowan Transcriptions, your recording is transcribed by an experienced human transcriptionist – not generated by AI and then cleaned up afterwards. 

That matters particularly when your recording contains: 

• multiple or overlapping speakers; 

• regional or international accents; 

• specialist, technical or industry terminology; 

• less-than-perfect audio; 

• detailed speaker identification; 

• non-verbal information or context relevant to the transcript; 

• specific formatting, timestamps or verbatim requirements; or 

• sensitive or confidential information requiring controlled handling. 

An experienced transcriptionist listens to the conversation as a whole. They understand context, recognise when something doesn’t make sense, research unfamiliar terminology where appropriate and make considered decisions rather than simply predicting the most statistically likely words. 

Fully human. From audio to finished transcript. 

Some transcription services describe their output as “human checked” or “human edited”. That can mean an automated transcript has been produced first and subsequently corrected by a person. That isn’t how McGowan works. 

Our transcription service is human-led from the start. Your recording is listened to and transcribed by an experienced transcriptionist, with our quality processes applied before the completed transcript is returned to you. 

We’ve provided professional transcription services for more than 30 years and understand that different recordings require different levels of detail, formatting and expertise. 

AI has made transcription faster and more accessible. When the transcript itself matters, we believe there is still no substitute for an experienced human listening. 

Human transcription for when the words matter.