About Us
Tybee Types transforms academic and business interviews, focus groups, lectures and conference sessions into readable text.
We think as we work, omitting speakers’ false starts and verbal filler. We believe that transcribing should advance communication not duplicate the frequent stumbling of natural speech. Advancing your efforts, we turn spoken word into prose.
Tybee Types produces quality full or summary transcripts. Summary transcripts synthesize participants’ ideas, omitting unneeded words and phrases, and this work generally takes less time, which saves you money. Completed transcripts are emailed to you and invoices sent when work is finished, or periodically during extended projects.
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Editing Services
Tybee Types Edits--We work with professionals, researchers, students, at dozens of colleges and institutions, and other writers through all stages of their projects. We offer far more than grammatical correction, but also organizational and content suggestions.
Transcription Uploading, Turnaround Time, and Completed Work
Most sessions are completed within four days of our receiving the recording, rush work more quickly.
Tybee Types returns transcripts by email in MS Word.
Uploading recordings-- Contact us for uploading instructions.
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Sample of Clients
Allina Health, Minneapolis, MN
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, College of Computing and Informatics
Gillette Children’s Specialty Services, St. Paul, MN
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center, Lac du Flambeau, WI
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Hugo Historical Commission, Hugo, MN
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT
Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC
Quality Evaluation and Development, Menomonie, WI
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, program in Human Genetics and Counseling
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, School of Information Studies and Burton Blatt Institute
University of Alabama-Birmingham, School of Public Health
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, School of Nursing
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, College of Nursing
University of North Carolina-Wilmington, School of Nursing
University of Southern California Saks Institute for Mental health Law, Policy and Ethics
University of Utah, Family and Preventive Medicine
At the University of Minnesota: Carlson School of Management, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, Office of Measurement services, School of medicine Department of Pediatrics, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Press, Institute on Community Integration, Center for Bioethics, Center for Health Equity, Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Behavioral Health Research Lab and Virginia Center on Aging
In the UK: Warwick Business School and Loughborough University.
Tybee Types works with many doctoral candidates in all stages of their projects.
We work with a variety of professional consultants.
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What Clients Say
I often think that had it not been for your excellent service I wouldn’t have been able to complete my dissertation in my very tight time frame. Thanks to you, I was able to finish the doctoral program in 3 years, 51 weeks - and just before my 60th birthday, which was a personal goal for me. I continue to refer folks to you and I hope some of them have followed my advice and contacted you. (TK)
Tybee Types does not transcribe the recording exactly (i.e. they don't include every single "um", stutter, grunt, etc.). I find this to be advantageous for our study. The text is quite clean and usable. I'm very impressed and pleased. (JCS)
Everyone is just raving over the quality of the transcripts and I plan to let my coworkers know about your services. (MM)
THAT WAS FAST! You guys must have done nothing but type for the last few days! (SGG)I thank you for your cassette repair and I'm delighted with the turnaround…and I welcome any feedback whatsoever anytime. (BR)…And I just had a brilliant idea . . . how about I buy a couple hours of your time and visit this summer when all the transcripts are done to get your reflections on them. Besides, I already feel like you’re truly my partner in this. (RM)
Thanks for being there (though it would have been a lot less threatening if you'd been some nameless, faceless, brainless person from somewhere who just types and doesn't integrate!). (MB)
By the way, the person who did the transcript for the San Diego group did an excellent job. There was a woman in the group who was extremely difficult for all of us to understand and she did a beautiful job of figuring out what she was saying. Please tell her how much I appreciate it. Of course, you did a great job with the Tulsa group as well. I know these must be so difficult to do. (MK)
Editing
The good news: My dissertation was accepted by UMI for publication. Thank you once again for all of your kind assistance, I very much appreciate it. (NP)
I am very pleased with the edits, suggestions, and comments you have already made on my work, my essays are much clearer and I recognize my own voice! (BBW)
You're very much on the mark. That may be one of the points that emerges from these transcripts. Thank you for your comments and your work. (JS)
All of your questions and criticism appear to be good ones. This scholarly discourse with you promises to stretch me both as a scholarly writer and researcher. (JJS)
About Us
Marj Schneider and Donald Moss created Tybee Types in May 1999, after both of us had been transcribing for several months and realized this activity had business potential. We also needed a business that was portable, allowing us to live in Minneapolis during warm months, but spend winters on Tybee Island, Georgia. Since we soon learned
Marj Schneider and Donald Moss created Tybee Types in May 1999, after both of us had been transcribing for several months and realized this activity had business potential. We also needed a business that was portable, allowing us to live in Minneapolis during warm months, but spend winters on Tybee Island, Georgia. Since we soon learned that you had to be a certain “type” of person to live on an island like Tybee, we decided to use its name, punning on the word types.
In 1998, Marj was asked to transcribe some work for Don's employer at the time, who couldn't find another transcriptionist. Those were focus group sessions, and Marj found she took to the work of making written sense of what people said aloud. She could use skills she had as a good listener and student of communication. Previous work teaching, writing and editing also gave her skills that were called upon in the transcribing process.
Don has worked with several independent consultants, working on projects spanning from education and social services, to science and medicine, to corporations and product development. He was quite familiar with all sides of the interview and focus group process, having written interview instruments, conducted interviews, analyzed and presented results to clients.
Both Marj and Don enjoy self-employment and being in control of our working environment.
Clients have come to us almost entirely through word-of-mouth referral. Our business grew in this manner so that after moving to Savannah, just 20 miles inland from Tybee Island, in 2003, we found that the number of clients and size of their project
Both Marj and Don enjoy self-employment and being in control of our working environment.
Clients have come to us almost entirely through word-of-mouth referral. Our business grew in this manner so that after moving to Savannah, just 20 miles inland from Tybee Island, in 2003, we found that the number of clients and size of their projects required that we hire several part-time typists willing to move beyond verbatim transcription.
Most of our clients’ work demands just that, thinking typists, who can gently advance the communication process along, turning spoken words into more concise and readable prose.
Don’s focus on more concise prose has led to a number of editing projects, working with consultants and graduate students on their writing projects, from early stages through final draft.