1.) Test Your Typing Speed Your typing speed determines your pay. Before considering a career in audio transcription test your typing speed. Typing.com is a very straightforward resource. The faster you type the more money you will make per hour. A strong typist should be able to type between 70 and 90 WPM. If you … Read more
As a transcriber you wear headphones for a large part of your day. Finding a pair that is affordable, durable, comfortable, and has great sound quality is very important. In this article we’ll discuss and review ten of the best headphones for transcription. The links included in the reviews are the most current Amazon.com listings … Read more
Researching what is “the best transcription software” can be a little overwhelming. There are a lot of different answers. A lot of companies promote a “free” software, but free in a very limited capacity. Also speech to text software comes up in search results, like Dragon Naturally Speaking, but that isn’t a transcription software. That’s … Read more
Working as a transcriber is both liberating and stressful. This article goes over the benefits and drawbacks of at-home transcription, the basic requirements to transcribe, the tools you’ll need, and some job resources. Benefits of Transcribing from Home You have freedom to: Set your own hours. Work as much or as little as you’d like. Accept … Read more
Why should a transcriber use a foot pedal? The foot pedal saves the typist time because you can keep your hands in typing position. A pedal rewinds, pauses, and goes in fast-forward. If you were to transcribe without a foot pedal then you are constantly using your hands to pause the video player. Some people … Read more
Flawless Transcription offers closed captioning to a variety of clients in the video industry. Online video is rapidly expanding and a lot of YouTube channels now offer closed captioning. Our most popular YouTube client is Shameless Maya. Her videos are a blast to watch. Here is a video of Maya’s that we captioned, be … Read more
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Check Price on Amazon.com) What is the difference between audio transcription software and speech to text software? A speech to text software allows the user the user to talk into a microphone at their computer and what the users says is then typed out in a text document. Dragon NaturallySpeaking learns your voice over … Read more
Wave Agent: A Great Solution for Timecode Transcription One of the best ways to send audio with time code is a broadcast wave, or BWF file. A BWF has the same file extension as a normal WAV file. A BWF looks like any other WAV file for example “Track1.wav.” However if you’re not sure … Read more
As more and more content is exclusively available online, now more than ever people need closed captioning on the internet. This article from Huffington Post is a well-written editorial asking online content creators to get their videos captioned. Here’s a pretty interesting statistic from the article: “It is estimated that one in every six people on Earth … Read more
Creating closed captions for YouTube is a relatively straight-forward process. Let’s break down the steps. 1 – Transcribe Your Video First you will need to transcribe the audio. I recommend breaking down the transcript line by line so it will be easy to implement the captions later. For example: Line 1: Hi this is Flawless … Read more