Specialist Transcription services with a Social Impact
Our mission
We make accessible work from accessibility work. As a disabled-led small business, our mission is to create a professional culture and workflow that foregrounds flexible, accessible and fairly-paid working conditions for freelancers who are disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent.
Unlike our competitors, we separate transcription and editing into separate tasks and service lines. This creates more work, for more freelancers—and helps us offer a higher-quality service. One hour of transcribed audio creates between five and eleven hours of work for our team.
By entrusting us to support your project, you help us do great things with your money—including offering you top-notch transcription and closed-caption services.
How we can help
Qualitative Research Interview Transcription
We transcribe interviews and focus groups for projects of all sizes and topics–from Welsh devolution and Punjabi diaspora mental health first aid, to trans histories of the internet and Black musicology.
Pre- or Post-Event Transcription & Closed Captioning
We transcribe and closed-caption workshops, conferences, and other events, both as part of your event accessibility planning and for post-event publication.
Podcast transcription
We transcribe podcasts to help with your SEO, enable repurposing your content, and create more opportunities for audience engagement.
Other Services
Got a video archive needing captions, or a dictated manuscript needing transcription? We work with clients in tech, arts & heritage, advocacy, or literature, on bespoke projects designed to suit their needs.
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What our clients say
Pedro Godoy, paleopercs.com
“With impressive promptness and professionalism, AAT greatly contributed to this by providing high-quality transcriptions of our talks…The quality of the transcriptions/captions is impressive, as well as the quickness.”
Cassius Adair, The New School
“Automated transcription services just don’t measure up. With AAT, the material was ready to use upon delivery, which was a huge help. AAT has been above and beyond, sourcing transcribers with identity-based expertise.”
Susannah Worth, Tate
“Their model of creating fairly paid work for disabled people, to their friendly communications, their efficient system of uploading files, and their genuine, enthusiastic and informed engagement with the subject matter.”
Lauren Cagle, University of Kentucky
“I work in disability studies and it’s important to me to support services that put disability justice front and center, so it seemed like a perfect fit.”
Katee Robert, NYT & USA TODAY Bestselling Author
“AAT has been absolutely revolutionary to my writing process, allowing me to dictate even faster, and and providing excellently edited transcripts. I cannot recommend enough.”
Derrick Osaze, University of Nottingham
“Working with AAT has been an absolute pleasure, it was easy to book, I experienced great service and would definitely recommend.”
People make our transcripts and captions–not AI
Think AI-produced transcripts and captions automatically save time? Think again. AI-produced transcripts and captions often need extensive editing, and ignore access conventions, frequently taking longer and more work to make publication-ready than human-made alternatives.
Because of this, alongside our commitment to creating accessible, fairly paid remote work for our freelancers, while producing top-quality transcripts and closed captions optimised for accessibility, we avoid using AI, and we never use our human talent to train AI services either.
What our freelancers say
S, Editor
“I feel genuinely privileged to have worked for AAT. Zara and her team are compassionate and supportive, the work is invariably fascinating, and for the first time in my life I felt comfortable being part of a team.”
X, Transcriber and Captioner
“As a disabled, neurodivergent freelance contractor, I’ve dealt with exploitatively low pay rates, and clients that wouldn’t pay. AAT had made a huge difference in my life. I’m able to do this work for fair pay, at a pace that works for me, and with a team that is compassionate and flexible.”
Secure, SSL-Encrypted File Processing
Strict Data Protection & Security
We employ strict GDPR/DPA18 data protection and security protocols including password-protected, SSL aka bank-level encryption on our secure, dedicated client server and right across our processing teams and workflow.
Simple File Upload & Download
Easily upload your audio or video files for processing via secure web login from your phone or computer browser, or via app, then download your completed transcripts and closed-captions when they’re done.