Author: Team Scribie
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The Pre-Payment Requirement
One of the most frequent questions/feature requests we get is support for post-payment. We require payment to be made upfront for all transcript orders and for a lot of our customers, that is not an option. This requirement leads to a lot of questions and in this blog post we will explain why we do…
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Delivery Limit
We impose a delivery limit of 2 hours of transcripts per day per user. If you order more than 2 hours of transcripts in a day then the deliveries are staggered such that you get around 2 hours of transcripts per day. For example, if you order 4 files of 1 hours each (approximately) then…
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Transcription Rates Change
Our transcription rates have been increased to $1.50 per minute of audio with effect from 1st of June 2012. That corresponds to $90 for a 1 hour file. The Flexible Delivery discount has been increased to 25%. Flexible Delivery orders are delivered anytime within a week instead of the normal 1 day delivery schedule. It…
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Transcription System: QC & Delivery
This is a series of posts on our human-powered audio transcription system. The following are links to the previous parts: Overview, Workflow, Certification, Transcription & Reviews, Proofreading. Delivery is the final step of our workflow. Here we perform quality checks on the final transcript that was prepared in the previous step to determine if the transcript is deliverable. When…
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Transcript Progress
One of the unique features of our Transcription System is that you can monitor the progress and check the Work-In-Progress transcript anytime from your account. The progress is the percentage completion based on the stage of the workflow the file is in at any given point of time. It maps in the following way. Range Stage 0-59% Transcription 60-89%…
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Transcription System: Proofreading
This is a series of posts on our human-powered audio transcription system. The following are links to the previous parts: Overview, Workflow, Certification, Transcription & Reviews. In our workflow, we first break the audio file into smaller parts and each part is then transcribed and reviewed by different people. Due to this methodology the transcript may contain inconsistencies. Proofreading is the…
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Transcription System: Transcription & Reviews
This is a series of posts on our human-powered audio transcription system. The following are links to the previous parts: Overview, Workflow, Certification. The Transcription & Review subsystem is where the bulk of the work gets done. In transcription the file is played back and typed into something called a raw transcript. This is the…
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Transcription System: Certification
This is a series of posts on the Scribie.com transcription system. The previous parts are: Overview, Workflow. Our transcription system is 100% human powered. That makes the certification subsystem the first important component. This subsystem handles the process of certifying new transcribers and inducting them. To become a certified transcriber one has to apply and take Transcription…
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Transcription System: Workflow
This is a series on Scribie.com’s audio transcription system. The first part which provides an overview is here. Our workflow consists of five steps. File Splitting -> Transcription -> Review -> Proofreading -> Delivery We start by splitting the file into smaller parts. The file is split at the 6 minute boundary which produces one or…