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General Transcriptions: As a Profession and a Source of Income

July 22, 2009 | Business News

What is Transcription?

It is the process of conversion of audio bar into a hardcopy file. Transcription is a usual way of mapping a sound into script. The script and the audio bar must be the same as directed. Those who are doing these services is professionally identify as a Transcriptionist.

Types of transcription services:

Medical transcription
Television and media
Foreign language
Research and business

How is it as a Profession?

We are in a high-tech global economy. The proof is the growing number of those telecommutes or online jobs and one of them is the general transcription. In fact, many people are taking up short course for this, because of the high demand in the transcription industry.

If you will do the research, you will see the increasing quantity of the websites who are offering transcription services. The business is getting popular and with high demand of workers globally.

As a source of income

The usual pay is per audio bar. One (1) hour audio bar will cost them $15.00. Some charges per minute, others are per projects. Good enough for your spare time, it was like earning and learning at the same time. You will enhance your typing and listening skills.

A number of people are focusing to this career, especially who are at interest with this kind of work and those who enjoys working at home e.g. mothers. Some Transcriptionist made this a business. As mentioned earlier, they want to grow in this profession, and never stop from learning new knowledge and technique that will help them successfully attain their business goal. Their strategy is to look for as many clients as they will have, look for other Transcriptionists who also work from home and distribute to them the work into a much lower price. That is when the business started.

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