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Category: Transcription

  • Transcription System: QC & Delivery

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    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…

  • Transcription System: Proofreading

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    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…

  • Transcription System: Transcription & Reviews

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    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…

  • Transcription System: Certification

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    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…

  • Transcription System: Workflow

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    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…

  • Re-inventing Audio Transcription

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    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…

  • Introducing Profiles and Stats

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    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…

  • Podcasts: Five Reasons To Have Them Transcribed

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    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…

  • CallGraph: Stereo vs Mono Recording

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    CallGraph Skype Recorder records by default in stereo mode which means that your voice and other participant(s) voice are on different tracks in the file. While playing back you will hear your voice on one side of the speaker while your caller/callee’s voice on the other side. To force CallGraph to record in a single…

  • Improving Transcription Accuracy

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    We have been fine-tuning our transcription process to improve the accuracy of the transcripts. Our process is a bit more involved from the usual transcription process where a person works on the complete file. Instead we split up the file into smaller parts and several transcribers and reviewers work on each part individually. The parts…