A nice niche when providing transcription services to clients is interview transcription. This is a service where a transcriptionist  creates  a written document  of a recorded interview.

Usually these are one-on-one interviews conducted for various  reasons. Reporters conduct a lot of interviews with many individuals for different reasons. Authors also conduct  interviews many times during the research portion of their book writing project.When an insurance claim goes to litigation the claimant, any witnesses  or people involved in the accident or incident who may have pertinent  information are interviewed by professional claims personnel or investigators.

Attorneys conduct tons of recorded interviews when preparing for trial. The lawyers and their staff will oftentimes interview the plaintiffs, the defendants and any and all eyewitnesses. These can get quite extended and must be transcribed as perfectly as possible because most times the transcripts to these legal transcriptions are submitted into court during the trial.

PhD students will many times conduct hundreds of hours of interviews while doing their research for their thesis. These are very time consuming to simply conduct, let alone transcribe. Many times their professors like them to at least attempt to transcribe some of their interviews, but they will usually end up outsourcing a large portion of this work to an independent transcription company or individual. These are usually individuals who will appreciate the work that goes into producing a transcript.

Oral historians or family members wishing to record their family histories also do one-on-one interviews. These are best done in a quiet setting using questions that were decided upon ahead of the interview. Transcripts of interviews with family members make wonderful Christmas  presents for the whole family.

There are times when an interview may be between more than two people. Sometimes there may be two people asking questions of one person, although this is fairly rare. More likely though, there will be one person asking questions of two or more people in group interviews such as focus groups. These are usually done by market research groups trying to gain the opinions of many people at once. While these are more difficult than one-on-one interviews, focus group transcription is a good niche within the interview transcription niche.