Category: General
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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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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: 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…
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Introducing Profiles and Stats
We recently launched profiles for our certified transcribers. Here’s a screenshot of my profile. It contains some background information, relevant professional experience and performance and work history on Scribie.com. It gives you an idea of who the transcriber is, how much work he or she has done and how has the work been. The profile…
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Moved From Slicehost to Linode
We recently switched our hosting provider from Slicehost to Linode. Here’s how it went. We had been on Slicehost since early 2009 and had a very good experience. We had few service disruptions and the performance was decent enough to suit our needs. But then there was this impending forced migration from Slicehost to Rackspace…
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Scheduled Maintenance Complete
We have completed the maintenance as scheduled today and all our services are back up and running. If you face any issues, please click the following link to logout and then login again to your account. https://scribie.com/logout https://scribie.com/account/login
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Podcasts: Five Reasons To Have Them Transcribed
Having your podcasts transcribed and publishing the text content on your website may sound unintuitive at first, but it has several advantages and is worth considering. Reading vs Listening Reading is a much faster process than listening. Many of your visitors would want to quickly scan through the transcript instead of listening to it. Some…
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CallGraph Browser Failure
If CallGraph Browser fails to start or if you get an error message similar to the following Error: Platform 5.0 is not compatible with minversion> =1.8 maxversion<= 2.0 Then please download and install the following setup to fix it. http://scribie.com/download?f=CallGraphBrowserSetup.exe After the install finishes, please restart CallGraph. To restart CallGraph, please right click on the…
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How to Transcribe An Audio File With Express Scribe
Transcribing Audio With Express Scribe So, you have an audio file which needs to be transcribed to text and have no idea how to go about it. Here’s how to do it. The first thing you would need is ExpressScribe. It’s a free tool which enables quickly to start/stop/pause playback with hotkeys (or foot pedals)…
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Hiring a Transcriber: Audio Hours vs Person-Hours
Transcription: Audio Hours vs Person-Hours If you’re looking to sell our your own e-book then have a look at Jared’s post at Startups Open Sourced. He’s had great success with it and has written up a detailed how-to of the steps involved. One of his tips is; get your interviews recorded and hire a transcriber to…