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An innovative approach to unravel and deliver history

13+ languages

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Cost-efficient

Deciphering the Past

Our service, combined with remote archival fieldwork, provides a cost-effective solution poised to play a pivotal role in the intellectual decolonization of historical narratives.

We specialize in transcription and translation from Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Old Slavic, French, German, English, Polish, Yiddish, Tatar, Kazakh, Armenian, and Georgian. If the language you require is not on this list, please inform us, and we will gladly create a customized offer to meet your needs.

While we can handle various types of documents, our expertise lies in the fields of Humanities and Social Science. The sources we typically work with include, but are not limited to:

Party protocols;
Diary entries;
Transcripts of state meetings;
Interrogation protocols;
Birth, marriage, and death records;
Intelligence agency reports;
State acts;
Correspondence;
Statistical reports.

What’s at the core of our method?

We combine advanced technological solutions in text recognition, artificial intelligence, and translation with the expertise of native-speaking philologists. The technology handles the initial round of translations, then professionals meticulously proofread the text. This approach saves considerable time and reduces costs while ensuring high-quality results, as all texts are human-verified. Our method has been validated in research published by Harvard University Press, Simon & Schuster, and Bloomsbury Academic. We guarantee reliable transcripts for academic research, genealogical studies, cultural preservation, and more.

Three good reasons to choose us

Quality

All the texts are verified by experienced native-speaking translators.
Support

Your personal manager will monitor the process to ensure timely and high-quality results.
Price

With few exceptions, we charge by the number of typed characters at an average cost of $11 per page.

We value our clients

My experience with the transcription service was exceptional. I had a collection of handwritten documents, including personal letters, internal Communist Party memos, and shorthand records, many of which were scribbles and illegible notes. The transcribers not only made these texts legible but also meticulously preserved the context of the original documents. They carefully noted the specific "list" numbers for each part of the document, ensuring the original context was accurately reproduced. This level of detail and accuracy made the service invaluable for my work.

Jonathan Brunstedt

Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University

Thank you for the help that The Bridge's transcription service has supplied me. Although I am generally good at deciphering Russian handwriting, I have been grateful to The Bridge for supplying an affordable way of having a professional transcript made to verify my reading of semi-legible personal letters and other handwritten documents.

David Brandenberger

Professor of History and Global Studies at University of Richmond

I've been happy with the transcription service. The people who have provided the transcriptions have generally done a good job— and they have highlighted text that they are unsure about. In at least one case, someone recognized a poem and tipped me off as to the author/source. That was really helpful — who knows how long it would have taken me to figure that out. The only bummer is when the document turns out not to be very useful or important — but you can't know until you can find out what it says.

Heather Bailey

Professor of History at University of Minnesota

I am very happy with your transcription service. I was really pleased that the transcription was done so quickly and that the transcribers were able to deal with multiple languages (Russian and Kazakh). I'll be sending them some more work soon!
My only small comment is that I did notice a few cases where they missed small things--the last name of one person who was being interviewed, for instance. The name was muffled. Perhaps they didn't transcribe it because it was difficult to hear. In that case, it might have been better to write "unintelligible."
But I should say that I'm not particularly concerned about this because I think that's extremely difficult to transcribe everything exactly.

Sarah Cameron

Associate Professor of History at Yale University

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