My blog entry for this date will be general observations of some interesting things that have come across my desk in the last few days that I’d like to pass on to you. I hope you’ll read to the end and read “The Principle Of The Garbage Truck.”
Partly because it is so closely related to transcription (or it could be), I’ve been interested in scrapbooking, but also partly because I like that sort of thing, although I’ve never had very much time to devote to it.
If you put together a scrapbook of family interest, one of the best things you can include is either an audio describing the pictures and events, or an audio and a transcription with a description. The latter really works well because it includes all of one’s modalities, hearing, seeing and reading. Read more
Yesterday, I decided to do a current search on digital recorders and I learned some good news: We’re getting more and paying less. I did a search on Olympus and found that for the same amount we were paying a year ago, we are actually getting longer recording times.
Then I went to a couple of local sources for purchasing recorders and found out the same thing.It occurred to me that this is a new technology and that some of you may be a little wary of trying it. It’s kind of like going from the standard typewriter to the electric typewriter. It was new and we had a lot of new stuff to learn. Then again, when going from an electric typewriter to a computer. More new stuff to learn. And now along comes this new technology and there’s more stuff to learn.
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If you’ve never used a transcription service, you may have questions about how it works, what you can expect from the service, how you contact them and what you will get back. In a recent interview I did with Yolanda McIntosh on Womens Radio, we covered that subject. You can listen to it at Womens Radio. In the interview we covered what “transcription” means.Basically, transcription is taking information from an audio and typing it or putting it into words onto a piece of paper that can be read.Perhaps you’ve seen on television assistants or secretaries in older movies taking shorthand. That’s the way I started. When I was in high school I learned how to do shorthand and then when I was in the work world, I would take shorthand from my boss and then I would transcribe it, type it into a letter or whatever the document was.
We’re much more sophisticated now, because we take the audio, an MP3 or WAV or whatever format you may have recorded it in, and with the software and equipment we have on our computer, we can transcribe your audio. Read more
Welcome to my first blog. This is so exciting. After having observed blogs from others, I’ve finally gotten the courage to start one of my own. As my friend, Merle Singer, www.mymteverest.com would say, I am on the way to conquering a personal Mt. Everest and exercising my “courage” muscle. Read more
