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Penguin Transcription - the home of transcription and well-written English
http://www.penguin-transcription.co.uk/blog
A blog all about transcription, with the odd post about grammar or the more 'fun' parts of the English language.
- Added on: Aug 10th, 2007
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Anne Hickley
- Listed in: Business Internet
- Tags: transcription grammar recording english language transcript file transfer
Recent Posts
How to get a good recording for interview transcription
I’ve had an astonishing number of transcription requests come in recently that are very poor quality recordings, and the biggest culprit is the coffee machine! It really is essential, if you want a good quality recording, to record in a quiet r...
Recording Interviews or Dictation for transcription? You can use your iPod!
There are a huge variety of voice recorders out there. They all do different things, and which one you get will depend on what’s most important to you. If you want a voice recorder that’s dedicated to just that, then see my article on getting the...
Free rice!
OK, this has very little to do with transcription, but it’s great! Another one of those charity websites, but instead of ‘click on this boring old advertise link once a day and we’ll donate something’ you can donate by clickin...
Verbatim strikes again
I have just spent two or three days editing a bunch of interviews for a client because he mistakenly thought he wanted them verbatim but in fact after reading the first few he realised they were rather hard to analyse. They read something like this: ...
Dictaphones must be getting better!
I have just finished transcribing a conference for a client. Since they took the plunge and went digital their conference recordings have improved enormously … so I was a bit surprised to find that the audience parts of the question and answer...
Podcasts - Why get them transcribed?
Podcasts are an increasingly popular means of putting information across over the internet, but many people are missing out on an important aspect of this. Providing a text version too. It may seem silly to go to all the trouble of recording and bro...
For those of us who love the written word, this is a wonderful web log site that has come to our community at a most opportune time. I stayed and read for a period and was so pleased by my new find. Thank you Anne Hickley.
Please visit me when you have time to relax and read. Sincerely, Theresa Hall
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