Case Study: University of Barcelona achieves faster, highly accurate research transcription with Amberscript

Defining New Security Challenges That Are About to Come With the Help of Manual Transcription

The University of Barcelona, a leading education-sector institution in Barcelona, needed a faster and more accurate way to process more than 50 hours of interview recordings for a government-funded research project on new security challenges. Their qualitative analysis was being slowed by manual handling across researchers and the limits of word-detection software, making transcription a major bottleneck. Amberscript’s manual transcription service was used to support this work.

Amberscript delivered specialized manual transcripts with jargon and domain-specific vocabulary, turning 5-hour interviews around in 3–4 business days with 99% accuracy for audible files. This significantly improved the University of Barcelona’s research workflow, reducing turnaround times that had previously stretched to as long as 6 months and helping the team work more efficiently on their Delphi-based analysis.

University of Barcelona

Rafa Martínez

Professor of Political Science and Public Administration