Category: Process
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How is Crowdsourcing Better than Outsourcing
In the wake of the somewhat inevitable death of outright outsourcing, a brand new way of getting various-sized projects done is rapidly rising to prominence, in the form of crowdsourcing. Since crowdsourcing is systemically edging out its once popular outsourcing cousin, it can be justifiably deduced that crowdsourcing is definitely better than outsourcing, but exactly…
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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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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…
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Re-inventing Audio Transcription
Last month we completed four years of our company. We launched CallGraph Skype Recorder in April of 2008 with intention of offering services around it. The transcription service was one of those and it quickly became the most popular. The past four years we have invested all our time and effort in developing a human-powered…