Meet award-winning transcriptionist Trina Farmilo

Hi I’m Trina

I’ve been a professional administrator and transcriptionist for over 20 years winning multiple awards as a legal and medical transcriptionist. In 2008 I established Purple Giraffe in New Zealand as an online secretary and transcription service. We’re located in rural Waikato, with a beautiful view of the Kaimai Ranges from our office and have the company of Mobie, our funky and sassy office manager dog!

… and her committed team of transcriptionist subcontractors

One of Purple Giraffe’s superpowers is our committed team of subcontractors whose collective knowledge and experience enable us to turn our minds to anything you need. Between us we have extensive experience in transcribing for workplace investigations, legal transcription, medical transcription and general transcription for clients across New Zealand and overseas.

“It is important to our work that we get every detail of these interviews and we know we can trust Purple Giraffe to do a great job. Many of the people we interview have strong accents or English is not their first language.”

Human transcription services without loss of nuance, prosody and intonation

AI transcription may be quicker than human transcription services but often require extensive editing making them costly and ultimately taking longer to achieve the accuracy required. As human transcriptionists we hear the intonation, understand the nuances and use intelligent verbatim to exclude ums and ahs and complete sentences as part of our process. The result is more accurate documents which are right, first time. You can read our blog on the subject here: AI vs human

More benefits of working with Purple Giraffe

• Having your digital dictation completed off-site on an “on-demand” basis is cost-effective. There is no requirement to commit to ongoing work.
• We can be your regular go-to transcriptionist service or simply step in when staff are absent or there is an overflow of work.
• For English speaking clients abroad, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, there is the opportunity to take advantage of the different time zones as your transcripts are completed overnight.  The completed transcript will be either in your inbox or uploaded to a site of your choice within the timeframe agreed,

Reviews

“We are a regulatory body who requires audio from interviews and legal hearings transcribed. A lot of the interviews contain confidential information, and industry specific terminology. We have been utilising Purple Giraffe’s services since 2014 to support our office administration in the completion of these transcriptions. Trina is always able to meet the mutually agreed deadlines, and is an excellent communicator who ensures she has a clear understanding of expectations for each assignment. Purple Giraffe is a very cost effective support service that I would recommend to others looking for an efficient and professional service.”

“I have assigned both audio transcription and proof-reading work to Trina on almost a daily basis since September 2008, very often assigning urgent transcription projects during the evening and at weekends. The work Trina returns is consistently second to none in terms of quality and timely delivery and she is certainly my first point of reference for each project.”

“I have been carrying out interviews as part of my PhD research and it has been amazing to have Trina’s help transcribing them. It saves me hours and hours of time and Trina has the transcripts back to me in a matter of days! The quality of her work is excellent and she is careful about the privacy of participants. I would highly recommend Purple Giraffe for anyone wanting transcription services.”

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