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Transcription
Fast accurate transcripts of your audio & video files in any format

Access Services
Captions, subtitles and audio description

Localisation
Dubbing and translation to take your content further
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Why Take 1?
Speed
Our scalable global team use proprietary technology to ensure your project is handled perfectly and delivered on time, every time.
Secure
Your content is in safe hands inside our DPP certified 2FA & encrypted platform built on AWS infrastructure.
Competitive Pricing
Blending smart artificial intelligence and experienced human editors to offer fast, high quality & affordable products.
High Quality
World class talent, purpose-built tools, and experienced QC teams ensure the highest quality deliverables.
Integrated
Our platform is tightly integrated with popular file sharing platforms and editing tools like Box, Dropbox, Wetransfer, Avid, Premiere & FCP.
Technology
From the latest ASR engines to synthetic voices, our R&D team are constantly evaluating the latest tech to deliver operational efficiencies.
- Transcription
- Post Production Scripts
- Captioning
- Audio Description
- Foreign Language Subtitling
- Translation

Transcription
Fast accurate transcription. 99% accuracy. Choose from human generated transcripts, ASR or human edited ASR
- Interview transcripts
- Audio & video transcription
- Foreign language transcription
- Podcasts
- Lectures
- Fully timecoded
- ScriptSync compatible
- Many formats & layouts

Post Production Scripts
Accurate post production scripts for TV shows & Films. Fully QC’ed. Supporting compliance, localisation & reversioning
- Post Production Scripts
- Dialogue Lists
- CCSL
- Spotting Lists
- Network approved layouts
- Dubbing Scripts

Captioning
Make your content fully accessible with our captioning solutions for broadcast & OTT
- Live and prerecorded captioning
- Web captions
- OFCOM
- AI powered near-live captioning
- Any output format

Audio Description
Reach visually impaired audiences by adding AD to your content. Talk to us about your AD requirements
- Scripting
- Voicing
- Extended AD
- Extensive pool of professional voice artists
- Synthetic voices available
- Foreign language AD

Foreign Language Subtitling
Take your content further through localisation
- Wide selection of languages & dialects
- Many formats and layouts
- Multi-lingual project managers
- High quality translations

Translation
Supporting translation needs for content creators, gaming industry, localisation partners & distributors
- 100+ languages
- 2000+ native speaking linguists
- Document translation
- Metadata translation
- Interpreters available
- Pivot language dialogue lists
Make your content searchable with our innovative transcription products
- How it works
- Take 1 Cloud
- Metadata Tagging
- Distributed Resources
Take 1 Cloud
Introducing the Take 1 Cloud – the industry’s most advanced transcription platform designed to simplify transcription workflows in a secure cloud environment. Connect to your media store, index your footage, and order transcripts of your content from an elegant browser interface delivering back 99% accurate scriptsync compatible transcripts quickly and at scale. Perfect for busy, security conscious post production teams.
Features
- Secure upload
- Transcript Viewer
- Transcript editing interface
- Browser based
Metadata Tagging
Our proprietary platform Liberty used by our team of 1000s of content analysts, transcribers & captioners allows us to capture rich metadata from your audio & video content. Unlock the DNA from your content by extracting dialogue, brands, timecode, speaker ID, on screen text, forced narratives and emotions. Supporting your localisation, reversioning & compliance needs.
SEE VIDEOFeatures
- Proprietary technology
- Structured metadata
- XML tagging
- Derive data once
Distributed Resources
Our global distributed workpool of transcribers, captioners, voice artists & content analysts will deliver your project, fully QC’ed on time and on budget. Centrally managed from our UK office, NDAs are signed as standard, ensuring project confidentiality.
Features
- Follow the sun model
- We transcribe while you sleep
- Advanced scheduling tools
We’re a global team with over 20 years of experience in first class customer service
Our clients are at the heart of everything we do, and our friendly teams are available around the clock. Don’t be shy. We’d love to talk
We are always onboarding:
- Transcribers
- Captioners
- Scriptwriters
- Translators
- Voice Artists
Committed to keeping your content secure


Our Projects
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