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 go through to transform a digital audio file into a useable text document – and there are many reasons in business for needing an accurate record of events. Our clients upload their digital audio files via our secure online server, which...

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 waste my time reviewing. I have been shocked over the years at people’s lack of consideration and social etiquette with something as serious as asking for your employment. The following can deter me from even considering an application: Not...

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 a digital audio file it is my role to proofread the transcript whilst listening through the audio, before it is returned to the client.  It is my responsibility to ensure the transcript is 100% accurate. Accuracy means ensuring that the typist’s...

I was recently invited to be a “guest blogger” by Alexandra Popovic from VIP Virtual Solutions, a fellow twitterer, regarding transcription typing. There were many things I could have written about regarding this topic however considering my fellow twitterer is an online virtual assistant and VA’s make up the majority of people that contact The Transcription People looking for transcription work, I thought documenting the difference between transcription and typing would be a very relevant topic. You can view the post on Alexandra’s...