Category: General
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When Is Captioning Mandatory?
Thinking twice about adding captions to your videos? As a video creator, your team has gone through scripting, filming, editing, and more. Now, you’re wondering if captioning is mandatory. Consider factors like who your audience is, where your work will be distributed, the video player they’ll use, jurisdictions, and more. Here, we’ll go through laws…
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National Novel Writing Month: Work Efficiently Through Dictation and Transcription
It’s an exciting month. There’s No-Shave November, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and for the writers inside of us screaming – it’s the National Novel Writing Month! The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an annual event for writers all over the world. Writers sign up (it’s free) and write a 50,000-word novel between November…
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Subtitles vs. Captions: What’s the Difference?
Videos, when maximized, are often powerful. Who doesn’t enjoy watching entertaining films and educational videos? It can increase your engagement, make information entertaining, and help improve your brand’s visibility. However, to make it more accessible to a wide variety of audiences, you will need to produce transcripts to be able to add captions and subtitles.…
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Promote Accessibility Through Transcription
The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members – Pearl S. Buck Whenever you produce content, how do you consider the varying abilities of your audience? How accessible is your content for everyone? Okay, what is ‘accessibility’ in the first place? Ultimately, it promotes access for all, regardless…
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Scribie Affiliate Program: Lifetime Commissions, Ongoing Earnings for Influencers
These days, it doesn’t hurt if you find ways to earn additional income, especially if you don’t have to shell out money from your own pocket to invest in a product to sell. Affiliate programs like Scribie’s allow their partners to have a passive income by referring the service through their affiliate links. If you’re…
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Startup Lessons: Lifestyle Business vs Hockey Stick Growth
Scribie has been in the market for more than ten years now. Like any other business, we started small and faced our share of challenges. Being known in the transcription business for quite some time now, it may make you wonder, why not focus on a hockey stick growth as other successful startups would? Wouldn’t…
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Promoting Equality and Justice
In light of recent events, we looked into our ways. We support the movement against racism and would like to extend this conversation to various injustices that affect our global community. We’re revisiting efforts that are most consequential to our community of people coming from various backgrounds. Through the years, we’ve been refining a meritocratic…
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Tips to Set Up Your Home Office for Transcription Work (and Beyond)
As a transcriber, your work environment could likely use an optimization or two. Now that many of us are unexpectedly staying at home due to the coronavirus, you could be facing new challenges. The spouse who used to work at an office could now be beside you all day. At the same time, children might…
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Transcription Services – Choosing Quality over Scale
“The greatest asset of a company is its people.” – Jorge Paulo Lemann Here at Scribie, we value transcribers for their hard work in providing high-quality transcripts. Recently, transcription company Rev has been facing challenges. This has to do with misaligned pricing and compensation due to variations across transcription jobs. Scribie forecasted that dealing with varying…
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Are Automated Transcribing Softwares Good Enough? Not for New York Times
If you are ChristineMcM, a New York Times commentator you probably know a too much about how automatic transcribing software can mess things up for you. As reported by The Daily Dot, she had something to say about a recent Trump article but had to take a phone call in the middle of her comment.…