Things to do When Outsourcing Qualitative Transcription Services If you are associated with a university or an organization who is involved in qualitative research, you may often find the need to hire a qualitative transcription service to do the text transcription of the research data and recordings. If the need is regular, you can even consider hiring a permanent, full-time transcriptionist for the job. Or you can consider outsourcing qualitative transcription services to an expert company or a team of transcriptionists.