http://www.ttp.com.au/blog Blog About Transcription, Digital Dictation and running a business in Australia Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:37:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am often asked the question "What is Transcription?" when chatting to people about what I do and am often quite surprised when people don't know. Put quite simply, transcription is the conversion of speech-to-text from video or more commonly digital audio recordings. However there are a lot of steps to ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2010/02/what-is-transcription-typing/ In the lead up to the end of 2009 and in the first week of 2010 I’ve read a lot of blogs listing the writer’s goals for this year. I think this is great and I have a list of goals I’d like to achieve too, but I prefer to make ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2010/01/2009-in-retrospect/ Christmas is a time of giving, but it also a time for being with friends and looking back at the year that has gone before, celebrating what has been achieved. I intend to do just this when I attend the CCBiz Christmas Cocktail function at Ettalong Mantra on Friday night (November ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/11/central-coast-business-christmas-charity-fundraiser-caps-ettalong-mantra-ccbiz/ Being a busy transcription business, we often receive around ten job enquiry emails per day either requesting information or submitting resumes for transcription work. Whilst this can be quite time consuming to review each email and resume, the process is often shortened by the occasional email that I don't even ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/11/dear-sir-madam-job-application-tips-hints-how-best-to-present-resume/ I was inspired to write this blog post after attending FlyingSolo Live in Sydney recently. One of the best speakers on the day was Andrew Griffiths an Aussie who has done very well in business in Australia. His keynote speech at FlyingSolo Live talked about his personal and business ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/10/tips-how-to-small-business-think-act-look-big-first-impressions-advice/ On behalf of The Transcription People I would like to thank our amazing clients for their support and for nominating us in our local Express Advocate Business Achiever awards for 2009, we are finalists in the Business Services category. This award is run by one of our local area newspapers and ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/10/gosford-express-advocate-business-achiever-awards-central-coast-business-services-finalist/ When using a transcription service one thing you must check is the security of the file transfer mechanism used by that transcription service. The vast majority of audio we process at The Transcription People is confidential, this means that the audio our clients send to us must be sent to ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/09/secure-encrypted-file-transfer-for-digital-audio-transcription-service-sftp-https/ Olympus have long been the market leaders in both tape and more recently digital voice recorders and dictaphones in Australia and I am sure in most parts of the world. Olympus Voice in Australia is run from their head office in Melbourne with an additional office located in Sydney. In 2009 ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/08/new-ds2-audio-format-in-use-by-olympus-recorders/ I love my role as proofreader for The Transcription People. Proofreading is one of several key quality control measures that The Transcription People have implemented to ensure their clients are totally happy with the transcription service we provide. After one of our transcriptionists completes a transcript from ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/08/proofreader-what-does-proof-reader-do-the-transcription-people/ The corporate world can be a bit grey at times – you travel to work on the same route, sit at the same desk every day, complete the same tasks, go to meeting after meeting… After 15 years of this grey existence I wanted to add some colour to my ... http://www.ttp.com.au/blog/2009/06/women-become-your-own-boss-entrepreneur-australia-niche/