Scribie Blog

Category: Transcription

  • Career in General Transcription

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    General Transcription is a relatively new field compared to Medical or Business transcription. Because the field is young, and growing, it presents a promising career choice for people with the right skill sets. In this post we are going to talk about what this job entails and the opportunities in this field. Skills The basic…

  • Coupons, New Discounts

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    Now you can save even more on your transcription costs with our discount coupons. Starting today, you can apply coupon codes and get a discount for your transcript orders. Press the coupon button on the invoices page, enter the coupon code and press Apply button to get the discount.   The coupon codes will be…

  • Delivery Limit

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    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…

  • 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…