Helping you deliver your message
Do you, or does someone you know, have a sight loss condition that makes them unable to access normal printed material? Or does your organisation want to make its own material more widely accessible to its clients, customers and staff?
Our Transcription Centre in Glasgow offers individuals and organisations an integrated service that converts printed material into a range of formats accessible to people with sight loss. We can transcribe almost anything, from books, magazines and letters, to bills, brochures and job-descriptions in the following formats:
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audio - CD, MP3, Daisy CD*, Tape
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braille
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electronic text
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large print
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tactile diagrams.
Our clients
Our clients include individuals with a range of sight loss conditions, voluntary and statutory sectors, commercial businesses, educational establishments and government and cultural agencies.
Our service is ISO 9001:2008 approved.
Costs
For commercial organisations, the cost of transcribing your documents depends on the size and complexity of the original document.
RNIB members can request free transcription of up to 300 pages of print every year. Further transcription can be purchased at a subsidised cost (prices start from 4p a page). Individual non-members can request transcription at this same subsidised cost.
To request a quote, please forward your document to us at glasgowtrans@rnib.org.uk; for hard copies please post to the address below; or call us on 0141 337 2955 for advice.
RNIB Scotland Transcription Centre
17 Gullane Street
Glasgow
G11 6AH.
Tel: 0141 337 2955
Our office is located off Dumbarton Road near Partick subway station (location map). There are good bus and train links.
* DAISY technology
DAISY is a digital audio and textual format with additional features that allows for a high level of rapid navigation through its content e.g. heading, pages, footnotes, etc. It is accessed on DAISY reading hardware, software and apps.