Single Voice Legal Transcription
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Standard Rate
(up to 24 hours turnaround time)
£1.30 per minute of dictation*
Priority Rate
(processed immediately and returned once complete)
£1.60 per minute of dictation*
* Rounded up to the nearest minute
At OutSec Legal, we are aware of the pressures placed on legal professionals to provide rapid and efficient responses to their clients, which is why we have designed our services with those factors in mind.
What is Single Voice Legal Transcription?
Legal transcription is the process of converting digital dictation recordings recorded by a solicitor, a barrister or other legal professional from speech to text by a legal transcriptionist, legal typist or legal secretary who then transcribes the text into digital legal documents and correspondence.
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Single voice legal transcription occurs when only one legal professional is speaking on a digital dictation recording. This differs from multi voice legal transcription where there is more than one speaker.
Who Processes our Digital Dictation & Produces our Legal Transcripts?
Our single voice transcription service is carried out by our legal transcriptionist team. This team is made up of legal secretaries, legal typists and legal transcriptionists all of whom have worked in the legal sector for at least 10 years or more. All our legal transcriptionists have been handpicked for their knowledge and expertise. They are all Microsoft Word experts; have advanced word processing skills including indexing and tables, footnotes and automatic numbering to name but a few.
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Many of our team have CILEX qualifications or legal secretarial qualifications. All our legal transcriptionists understand legal terminology including commonly used Latin terms.
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It is this which makes our legal transcriptionist team one of the best in the industry. All of our transcriptionists in our legal transcriptionist team have signed strict confidentiality agreements, however, we are happy to sign bespoke agreements on request.
What Areas of Law do Your Legal Transcriptionists Specialise In?
Our legal transcriptionist team has extensive experience in the following areas of law including:
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Debt, Insolvency and Bankruptcy
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Criminal Law
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Matrimonial Law
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Family Law
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Wills and Probate
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Conveyancing: Residential
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Conveyancing: Commercial
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Civil Litigation
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Criminal Litigation
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Immigration
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Social Housing
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Company Law​
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Employment Law
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Charity
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Commercial
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Consumer
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Corporate
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Human Rights
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Personal Injury
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Clinical negligence
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Torts
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Copyright (Music)
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Design
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Patents
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Public Law
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Asylum
Want to Know the Benefits of Outsourcing Your Legal Transcription Needs?
We have pages designated to the benefits, so you
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Precedents, Templates, Standard Paragraphs and Documents
With OutSec Legal you are still able to use all your existing legal precedents, standard letters or document templates to ensure consistency is maintained to that which has been previously carried out by your legal practice. If you have a house style, you just need to provide us with any guidance notes and relevant templates and precedents, as you would with an in-house member of staff.
If you have legal templates or legal precedents that need updating, our legal document production and formatting team can help with this too.
What Types of Documents Can You Transcribe?
Unlike other outsourced transcription companies, OutSec's Legal's specialised Legal transcriptionist team specialise solely in legal transcription and know exactly how legal and court documents should be laid out. This is because we utilise legal secretaries who have had a minimum of 10 years of experience and have CILEX or Legal Secretarial qualifications. This means we know which rule a Solicitor's letter to an incarcerated prisoner should be sent under and we know how a Will should be set out. Unlike other companies, we know that court documents in civil cases have to follow practice direction 5A of the Civil Procedure Rules.
Unlikely other transcription companies we have access to a DX Directory.
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Our legal transcriptionists transcribe:
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Correspondence (letters and emails)
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HM Land Registry documents and forms
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Court documents and forms
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Witness statements
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Affidavits
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Statutory declarations
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Leases
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Notices
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Telephone attendance notes
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File notes
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Attendance notes
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Articles of Association
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Contracts and Agreements
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Instructions and Briefs to Counsel
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and much, much more.
Legal Forms
OutSec Legal uses the UK's government websites to obtain their legal forms such as:
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We do this to ensure that all legal forms used by us are current and up to date; this is to reduce any issues on submission. This, therefore, reduces time and costs for your law firm, as forms do not need to be retyped and then resubmitted.
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​Our expert legal transcriptionist team are able to type up and transcribe these legal forms in either Word or PDF format, dependent on what has been provided by UK Gov.
This means there are no additional costs to your firm in terms of software, meaning that costs for you are further reduced. However, if legal form software forms part of your case management software, then of course, we will use it as required.
Case Management and Practice Management Software
If you wish us to work directly into your case management system we can do that too! Currently, we have clients who use:
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Proclaim,
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ALB
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Ochresoft
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Intelliworks
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LEAP
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Visualfiles
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and many more.
Please contact us to discuss and we will be happy to help.
Can OutSec Legal Intergrate with Leading Digital Dictation Software and Transcribe Files From Digital Dictation Recorders?
We are aware that some law firms and legal practices have invested in leading digital dictation software platforms and digital recorders. OutSec Legal can integrate with most digital dictation systems (or receive files from these), These include (but are not limited to):
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BigHand
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​Dictamen
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Olympus ODMS
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Philips Speechwrite
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and many more
The OutSec Connect App
The OutSec Connect app is a digital dictation app which turns any smartphone/tablet into a digital dictation recorder! The app can even be run on MacOS (on any Mac with an M1 chip or higher). It is simple to use and free to OutSec Legal clients, so, why not use our legal transcription app to access your transcriptions on the go?
How Our Legal Transcription Service Works
Record your legal dictation files
Record your digital dictation files via our OutSec Connect app (available for iOS, iPadOS & Android) and send your dictation files securely to us. Alternatively, if you use a digital dictaphone, you can upload your files via our secure website. You will receive a notification that the file has been uploaded and sent for transcription. OutSec Legal can also accept files from Bighand, Dictamen, ODMS & Speechwrite and many other digital dictation recorders & software.
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Transcription is undertaken by legal typists or legal secretaries
Your file will be allocated to one of two designated legal typists, transcriptionists or secretaries who will type, edit and format your legal documents as per your instructions on your audio dictation file. Our legal typists can type these directly into case management systems such as Actionstep, Visualfiles, Ochresoft, Intelliworks and many more.
Receive your legal transcripts
Once the dictation file has been completed by your legal transcriptionist, legal typist or legal secretary, you will receive a notification that your completed file or files are ready for collection.
You can then download your completed legal correspondence and your legal documents from our secure website.
Alternatively, you can collect the files securely from the OutSec Connect app.
A Trusted UK Legal Transcription Company
Secure Legal Transcription
We are Cyber Essentials Certified and GDPR compliant. OutSec Legal are independently audited for Cyber Essentials annually. At OutSec Legal we employ bank-level security so your data stays safe.
Quality Legal Transcriptions
We guarantee accurate single voice legal transcriptions. Our legal transcriptionist team have a minimum of 10 years of experience working in the legal sector together with holding CILEX or Legal Secretarial qualifications. This enables us to provide great quality legal transcriptions.
Guaranteed Turnaround Times
Fast turnaround times ensure your single voice transcription is returned to your legal practice on time. We also offer urgent single voice transcription for those who are under time pressures
Frequently Asked Questions
At OutSec Legal, we are always happy to answer any questions you may have.
That is why we have put together a searchable set of frequently asked questions just for you:
However, if you have any additional questions why not get in touch.
What Makes OutSec Legal The Best Legal Transcription Service & Legal Document Production Service in the UK?
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OutSec Legal has been designed exclusively for the legal sector to offer the best quality remote legal typing and legal document production, formatting and editing services at cost-effective pricing;
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OutSec Legal's services are perfect for sole practitioners, barristers, mediators, law costs draftsmen, law firms, in-house legal departments and barrister's chambers;
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OutSec Legal are GDPR compliant;
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OutSec Legal are Cyber Essentials certified which is audited and assessed independently;
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OutSec Legal only use experienced legal secretaries, legal copy typists, notetakers, minute takers, legal document production and editing specialists, all of whom have signed strict confidentiality agreements with us.;
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With OutSec Legal there is no need for expensive dictation equipment;
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OutSec Legal offers a free dictation app to customers. This allows legal dictation files to be recorded on your smartphone or tablet;
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With OutSec Legal there are no contracts, no monthly fees, no minimum spends or hidden fees. The service is on a pay-as-you-go basis, meaning you are in control.
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OutSec Legal offers copy typing, fix and format, file conversion and legal authoring services to name but a few.
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OutSec Legal provides itemised billing each month, so you know what you have spent and when;
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OutSec Legal are able to work with your existing legal precedents, legal templates or lists of standard paragraphs;
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Our document production specialists can even improve upon existing templates or precedents for you to improve productivity;
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OutSec Legal offers multi-voice transcription. We can transcribe recorded remote meetings and provide Zoom transcription., Microsoft Teams transcription & Skype transcription;
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We can also work directly with your existing case management software such as Proclaim, ALB, Ochresoft, Intelliworks, LEAP, Visualfiles and many more.
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OutSec Legal can integrate with leading digital dictation software platforms such as BigHand, Dictamen, Olympus ODMS and Philips Speechwrite.
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OutSec Legal is based in the United Kingdom and is a UK-registered company.