Transcription Services and Online Events
In the past few years I have been doing more
synchronous online events, including adding
teleconferences to web based asych events. One
service has become critical for me - taping and
converting calls to audio files (I use http://www.audiostrategies.com).
When I am a participant (not a facilitator or
leader) I often take almost-real-time
transcriptions, but I can't always do that. So I
have been looking for a transcription service for
these audio files. I was pointed to iDictate -
Secretarial Transcription Services who say:
"iDictate
is a revolutionary blend of technology and human
interaction that enables you to dictate any document
using a telephone, fax machine, or dictation device,
and then receive the completed job back for editing
via e-mail, more quickly and economically (just 1
cent per word**) than with typical in-house staff,
and more accurately and easily than with voice
recognition software. iDictate provides 24x7 access
to a global pool of highly trained and bonded
secretarial word processors."
A member of the
Onlinefacilitation list reports that the service is
"brilliant and extremely fast. The fee, if you
upload a sound file is 1-cent per word. The turn
around time is 24-hours (or less)." Anyone have any
other recommendations of how we bridge between synch
and asych with recordings and transcripts?
Martin
said...
I have also recently learnt about
idictate.com and really like the idea (and the 1 US
sent per word price doesn't seem too excessive). In
particular, I'd like to experiment with getting
documents started by dictating them and having the
mp3 file transcribed by idictate. When I write I
tend to waste a lot of time backtracking, which is
much harder to do when one dictates stuff - so less
of a temptation. Anyway, I'll write up an evaluation
on my blog if I do decide to try out the service.
