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Google “transcription software” and you will get 6,310,000 hits. It is a well recognised and already well-utilised product. But for it to truly succeed and become a household name – it needs to be accurate. Good software must not just recognise the individual words, but also the grammar. The English language is complex, there are too many words which sound the same – yet all have different meanings.
– to, two, too
– know, no
– which, witch
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was privileged to spend yesterday with a group of New Zealand’s most successful female entrepreneurs. Several told the stories of their journeys. Although each woman and each product or service they offered was different, there were some recurring themes, and deeply profound and moving elements to each story. I am kicking myself for not recording these stories. more...
I knew there was a reason my shorthand lessons looked so much like ancient egyptian hieroglyphics.
This “art” of shorthand has, in fact, a long history which traces back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians (The Shorthand Place [TSP], 2009).
Several prominent historical figures, including roman leader Julius Caesar and the Athenian Greek philosopher, Socrates were said to have used shorthand (TSP, 2009).
The Egyptian form of shorthand, hieratic script, is traced as far back as 3200 BC and much like today, it was used for a variety of reasons, from legal purposes to historical accounts (The Scribe, 2007). more...
How TranscribeMe Crowd-Sourced Transcription Adds Value to Schools: Transcribe me is faster, easier, more accurate, and less costly than the market competitors. This has a number of positive benefits. I will get into those later. First, I will describe how transcription adds value to schools, even with nationwide budget constraints in both the public and private sectors.
As most people know, the public school system, especially in inner-city districts, has always had a problem with school attendance. Research conducted on the relationship between note-reviewing and positive school performance shows that the two have a very high correlation with each other. On the other hand, research has also shown that transcriptions taken by college students typically include less than 50% of the ideas presented and the amount of content recorded varies systematically with course performance. more...
It’s an all too familiar frustration, buying a new product, only to have it surpassed by a better, cheaper model a few months later. Many purposely seek out the torture, after buying a product, of wandering through stores comparing prices and specs with their purchase. Suffering envy’s wrath when inevitably the new product comes out cheaper and better. But there is some consolation available — in some cases — for those of you who get some form of altruistic pleasure out of doing something for the “greater good.”
Your prize — knowing you are shaping the future of technology. more...
TranscribeMe are heading to DEMO Asia. There are five good reasons to get excited about this – based on survey results spanning 20 years of DEMO. more...
I made the mistake, once, of volunteering to transcribe an interview for a friend, thinking all I needed was my handy skill of typing at an average of 80 wpm. Unfortunately this was not enough – not considering when the average human talks at a speed of 110 – 150 wpm. It cost almost three hours — and a splitting headache — to filter through the 30-minute interview and create some semblance of sense on paper. A magic wand would have come in handy. more...
Clients say that security of transcription, retention of content integrity and confidentiality are imperative aspects of a transcription service. Anonymous, the internet hacking stalwart group, famous for hacking the FBI and others, has advised they will bring down the entire internet, all 13 DNS servers run by the American government, on March 31 this year. more...
Transcription has been discussed in the context of industry and government here and elsewhere for as long as there has been a spoken word and a transcriber to record that word. Today transcription is still primarily discussed in terms of business or governance but to exclude the personal, creative and artistic benefits of transcription from the limelight is to deprive the world of some of its most profound and engaging text. more...
On a personal level, the reasons for communication are self-evident. We wish to relay a message or make a request. Dialogue is arguably the most meaningful exchange in personal communication. Dialogue is distinguished from conversation, debate or discussion by the fact that with ‘true dialogue’ there are two critical factors that do not exist in other forms of communication. These are the need to listen; listen in true dialogue is defined as hearing the other person’s position without waiting to interject, and without bias. The other is the intrinsic instinct for dialogue that is inherent in all of us and is an underlying basis of understanding that goes beyond conscious dialogue to something much deeper, which is a communal dialogue. more...
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