Case study
Five hundred hours of long-form transcription across four locales with reviewed quality.
A model program needed 500+ hours of long-form transcription across four locales, including Maghrebi Arabic and Indian English, where dialect and length both work against accuracy.
500+ hours - Tamil, Indian English, Maghrebi Arabic, English - reviewed quality
110,000+
verified language specialists
Language specialist network
300+
languages across active service lines
4,500+
dialects and regional variants
110+
rare and indigenous language pairs
1,000+
projects delivered since 2015
Measured outcomes
Long-form transcription
Project overview
What landed, and what made it hard.
A model program needed 500+ hours of long-form transcription across Tamil, Indian English, Maghrebi Arabic, and English, delivered through a top-100 LSP for AI training.
Delivery snapshot
Long-form transcription
- Client
- A model program (via a top-100 LSP)
- Service
- Long-form transcription
- Languages
- Tamil, Indian English, Maghrebi Arabic, English
- Volume
- 500+ hours
- Quality
- reviewed quality
Why this mattered
Outcome before process.
Long-form audio compounds error: a transcriber who drifts over a long file produces data that quietly degrades a model, and dialects like Maghrebi Arabic narrow the qualified pool.
The problem to solve
Why the work was difficult, and what MoniSa changed in-flight.
Long-form transcription fails when transcribers tire over length, when dialect handling is inconsistent, or when QA samples too little of each file.
The challenge
The problem to solve
Long-form transcription fails when transcribers tire over length, when dialect handling is inconsistent, or when QA samples too little of each file.
The program needed accuracy held across long files and four locales, including a hard Arabic dialect.
Operating response
What MoniSa changed
MoniSa assigned dialect-matched transcribers per locale and ran QA across each long file, full-file review instead of spot samples, to hold accuracy over length.
- Dialect-matched sourceMaghrebi Arabic and Indian English were handled by transcribers native to those varieties.
- Full-file QAQA covered each long file end to end, not a short sample, so accuracy did not drift over length.
- Locale consistencyEach locale held to its own conventions across the 500+ hours.
Results
Measured outcomes from this engagement.
The program received 500+ hours of long-form transcription across four locales at reviewed quality, with accuracy held over long files and dialect-specific varieties.
| Volume | 500+ hours |
|---|---|
| Languages | Tamil, Indian English, Maghrebi Arabic, English |
| Quality | reviewed quality |
| Content | Long-form transcription |
Selection logic
What protected the result.
Long-form transcription needs dialect-matched source and full-file QA, not a generic pool sampling short clips.
Why the fit was real
Why the fit was real
Long-form transcription needs dialect-matched source and full-file QA, not a generic pool sampling short clips.
What decided the result
What decided the result
Holding accuracy over length and across a hard Arabic dialect mattered more than raw hours.
What buyers can reuse
What buyers can reuse
- Long-form audio compounds transcriber drift, so QA has to cover the whole file, not a sample.
- Hard dialects like Maghrebi Arabic need native transcribers, not a generic Arabic pool.
- The evidence keeps the client and partner details confidential and attributes the metrics only to this engagement.
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Examples referenced in the engagement.
- Maghrebi Arabic
- Indian English
- Tamil
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What was delivered on this engagement?
Volume: 500+ hours. Languages: Tamil, Indian English, Maghrebi Arabic, English. Quality: reviewed quality
What control kept the work stable?
Holding accuracy over length and across a hard Arabic dialect mattered more than raw hours.
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