Do It Yourself Tips

DIY tips for beginners (see below for advanced).

In business, time priorities are often established. One must decide the best way to do something, e.g., in-house or contracted services.

To deliver the best results to one's clients, an expert, e.g., VerbatimIT, may be the best choice to stay focused on other priorities.

There are numerous situations where readable, verbal content is required from the content in an audio source.

Two issues of transcription by amateurs: 1) mechanical and 2) psychological.

MECHANICAL

For whatever reason you decide to go it alone, whether to save money, or gain experience, without a foot pedal, you will relive history, such as my own, and others who ....

The BTDT part is that I started out once, too, and worked manually, the hard way, using a typewriter and tape recorder (without a foot pedal).
I did a routine of 1,2, 3. Repeat.
1) I pressed PLAY, listened to a phrase.
2) I pressed STOP.
3) I typed a phrase.

Continuing in this manner, I completed, e.g., a one-hour playing time in approximately 5 to 6 hours because of the gross inefficiency of the process.

The very least improvement would be to use a foot pedal on the transcriber, or digital audio software to control playback from the keyboard without interfering with your word processor.

That does it for the mechanical.

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Interviews:
If you are an interviewer, you might benefit greatly by taking some psychological distance from the interview and get its content delivered to you by a service such as VerbatimIT.com

An experienced transcriptionist can save you time and money, moreso than one can "save" by using software to transcribe the human voice.

Believe me -- or not. I've tried. I even knew a chiropractic who tried an early version of Dragon and found he could type faster than it.

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For advanced DIY people

If you would like more information - data - about how VerbtatimIT manages production transcripts be prepared to absorb and analyze this: ...

http://sites.google.com/site/verbatimitosc/ which is yours for the use but not abuse, i.e., do not reappropriate it for profit.

The data is designed to make any production typing job easier, specifically within a re-populate feature called AutoCorrect.

Repopulated? The AutoCorrect List as supplied by its host is pre-populated with a list of words. By studying this list I found it more beneficial as a data set by deleting the entire list, and building my own list.

After initially building and using this list, and growing it for a period of five years, it became a robust compendium worthy of "taking on" anything - anything. This is why the motto of Verbatim Instant Transcripts is...

You said it. VerbatimIT. Read it today... or sooner.

Tens of thousands of common words and phrases, and special glossaries in formal and informal English can all be rendered perfectly from any audio source.

Intelligent use of the feature AutoCorrect can result in one's own specialty typing becoming less drudgery and more easy every day.

Tens of thousands of entries

VerbatimIT includes in the "vanilla" database (absent of confidential list words) tens of thousands of entries, various words and their respective past, present, and future tense affiliates. (see the database for more information).

Voice recognition systems: This data is not best suited for voice-recognition systems.

Learning curve: There is a learning curve to this system, but it is in essence, easy.

Your Mileage May Vary: the result of using this system will vary, but you may type faster with 100% accurately all the time, with a side effect of less pain, and more gain.

To import this into your version of a word processor you will need software, available at ...

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