Digitizing and Transcribing Legacy Audio: How Speechpad Helps You Preserve Important Recordings

Many professionals still rely on recordings stored on microcassettes, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, SD cards, microSD cards, and older digital recorders. These formats often hold important interviews, meetings, oral histories, or legal notes that need accurate transcription, but converting them into digital files isn’t always easy. As technology changes, older audio formats often become harder to play, harder to share, and at risk of being lost over time.

Speechpad supports the digitizing and transcription of non-digital and legacy audio. If you have recordings that aren’t yet in a digital format, you can mail the physical media to us and our team will convert it securely. This makes it easier to preserve information that might otherwise be difficult to access.

We currently accept microtapes, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, SD cards, microSD cards, and digital recorders. Once converted, our human transcribers produce clean, readable transcripts with proper speaker identification, timestamps if needed, and formatting based on your project requirements.

Who Uses Legacy Audio Digitizing and Transcription?

The following Speechpad customers frequently need support with digitizing and transcribing legacy audio:

• Historians and archivists preserving oral histories, community interviews, and cultural recordings
• Journalists handling older interviews, field recordings, and taped notes
• Legal teams processing archived depositions, client interviews, and case-related recordings
• Researchers working with long-term studies or participant interviews captured on older devices
• Academic institutions preserving lectures, seminars, and archival materials
• Corporations digitizing legacy meeting recordings for compliance and documentation
• Families organizing important personal recordings, memoirs, or family history interviews

Why Digitize and Transcribe Legacy Audio?

Digitizing and transcribing these recordings protects valuable information and ensures it remains accessible for future use. Once your audio is converted, it can be stored, backed up, shared, and referenced without the risks that come with aging physical media.

If you have physical media that needs to be transcribed, Speechpad can help you convert and preserve your recordings. We make it easier to turn legacy audio into searchable, usable digital content that supports your work and keeps important stories alive.

Get Started

If you’re interested in digitizing and transcribing your legacy audio, email us at support@speechpad.com for any questions.

Want to Preserve Important Recordings?

Speechpad helps historians, archivists, and researchers convert legacy audio into clear, accurate transcripts. Whether you’re working with oral histories, community interviews, lectures, or long-term study recordings, we make it easier to digitize your media and keep critical information accessible.

Learn more about our transcription services for historians, archivists, and researchers