Why Hire a Professional Transcriptionist to Convert Your Audios to Typed Text?

 

Not too long ago someone mentioned to me that she uses a voice recognition software program for converting her audios into typed text. That certainly is a legitimate question – why should someone hire me if they can buy the software.

 

Since I have never worked with this kind of software, I thought about it and I came up with the following questions that I had to ask myself.

 

  • With audio recordings of interviews, groups, or live teleseminars and so forth, how does the software distinguish between multiple speakers? How does it know to punctuate and break the text into paragraphs appropriately?

 

  • When people just speak naturally, their speech is filled with tons of ‘ahs’ and ‘umms’ and you know’s’ and so forth. Does the software know to filter those out when appropriate? People also string multiple sentences together with ‘and’, forever! Does the software know when to break the sentences apart?

 

  • How about when the quality of the audio recording is not top-notch, such as when there is background noise or people speaking on top of each other…how does the software handle that?

 

  • Even when there is only a single speaker, if they do not dictate punctuation, paragraphs, etc., does the software take care of that?

 

If the software does not handle these issues well, how much work is involved in cleaning up the text?

 

Then too, I do more than just type the ‘words’, I am deeply interested in whatever it is I am transcribing. There is a creative, collaborative give and take between my clients and me that seems to be of benefit to both of us, beyond the action of me ‘just’ transcribing their audio recordings. I do enjoy what I do!

 

I have a valuable, worthwhile service to offer my clients. I am very proud of my skills and my dedication in assisting my clients to creatively contribute their valuable knowledge and experience to the world.

Video Transcription – the Wave of the Future