The transcriber's life...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Ever wonder what a reality tv transcriber does? I'm glad you asked! Now this video won't go to waste. Whew!
By the way- there are some typos, it happens sometimes, even to transcribers.
Apologies for the super fast moving ticker. I am still learning how to work this editing thing.
Seriously just transcribed a thing where a guy said "you know" 273 times in 1 fucking hour.
Paul Madore Wow, you know, I've never, like, really encountered something like that, you know? Uh-huh. Like, you know, never, like, before, you know?
I recently transcribed an interview where the interviewee said "fuck" 273 times in an hour! I called the client and said "Are you SURE you want this verbatim?".
Just started as a transcriptionist full-time and this is right on point. I never thought it could get so damn frustratig just trying to type what people are saying, and I truly never realized how irritating some people can be when talking, damn!
+Yve R Are you doing this full time or just part time? Does it pay a living wage?
I was just thinking of doing this It would be my first time ever doing an job like this but It does seem Interesting I'm way tech savvy the thing Is I need to work on my keyboarding skills and such before I can land a job like this.
Most generally, no. I work directly for two courts, and then sometimes there are funding issues. If I work all the time with no gaps, I can make about $2000 to $2200 a month, but I was laid off from one of them for over eight months and hardly any work from the other court and was forced to work for a what I call a transcription mill, and the most you can make -- and I'm a stenographer, not a typist, so I go fast -- is about $1200 a month if you work every single day. You have to spend a lot of time proofing. If someone disagrees, I would appreciate any leads where I could actually make a living wage. If you're supporting yourself, and you don't have other household income, I would not recommend it. I wish I would have chosen another career path, but it's too late now because of my age. The only way you can make money is if you're the owner of the company and pay others slave wages to do the work.
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This is on point. I feel like people should be made to take lessons in 'SPEAKING EFFECTIVELY' for the sake of a good transcript and a sane transcriber.
I love this comment. Atleast I know now that I am just really feeling normal everytime I transcribe inaudibles.Thanks!
I just started being a transcriber today. Holy crap. Stop being painfully accurate.
Awesome! Can you make a video like this for medical transcription where the doctor dictates from a cell phone, in the car, on the freeway with the windows down, eating, drinking and burping, cars honking, while talking to his wife in the passenger seat so he keeps forgetting what he said and repeats it. He pronounces medications wrong, invents new medical terms, speaks as fast as humanly possible (with a foreign accent, of course); and after 10 minutes he says "strike that, lets start over".
Bulldogger 17 Hahahaha. I was waiting for you to say foreign accent ;D
[applause] This is honest and describes transcription perfectly [laughter]. Think you're very, very, very-- I just feel that this video was very [inaudible] awesome!
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Wonderful representation of what transcriptionists do on a regular basis. I've been transcribing for five years and these reactions are still legit.
I was just looking at this as a second job... safe to say you have made me rethink my choice lol
Hey, it's not bad money if you can stand the nonsense!
WHERE are you working that "it's not bad money"??? I have come across more cheapskates in this business than anywhere else. I've tried so many different companies and freelance websites and unless I want to work 16 hours a day 7 days a week I still have to have another source of income in order to pay the bills. And clients think that every audio hour is worth the same amount, no matter if every second file is from some unknown island where they don't even know what the word "English" means, or some remote village in northern Russia.
reality tv.
this is seriously my life. This is amazing.
That first example sounded like Rubio XD
very good example. i am trying this new transcript idea...very frustrating
Omg. lol Girl, you are hilarious! lol
Thanks!
Great video
i'm always interested in transcripts. i love reading it. maybe bc my english isn't as good as native speakers so there's always something i can't understand. it's useful to have transcripts at hand. i want transcipts lol
Hey! I thought this video was so funny! I actually laughed out loud. I came across this video after a late night of wondering what the heck I'm gonna do with my life. I'm a junior in high school, on my way to being a senior. I plan on going to college and maybe majoring in something Computer/Technology related with a minor in Journalism. Furthering my Google-ing, i saw that Court Reporters/Transcribers make a good amount of money. What do you guys think? What should I do? It says there's training to do and I should be able to transcribe at 250 words per minute. Thoughts? Advice? Any nice jokes that can ease my high-school-future life-late night google-ing about life-stress?? :) (PS I tried typing this really fast, so many typos, but it was fun)
+Jasmin Bryant If I could do it again, I would have done the program in court reporting. I spent 7 years in college and became a teacher for 16 years. I quit and now I'm struggling to reinvent myself. With court reporting, you can work for the county, get a pension and also work for yourself. A word of advice, invest in property, even if it's far away.
Most of those jobs have been eliminated due to lack of funding, and they record the proceedings, and then it's sourced out to transcription companies, who don't pay shit. I wouldn't recommend it. It's an extremely difficult skill to master. I've been at steno for 16 years, and I'm still at 180, and you have to be at 225 to be licensed.
Court reporting is very difficult to learn and very stressful to go to work every day. Everyone used to say to me "oh what an interesting job - you get to listen to trials all day....." Trust me, there's no time to absorb what's being said - it goes in my ears and out my fingers. And it can be hellishly boring at times. There's nothing like a good old Accounting fraud case to make you want to rip your face off. I gave it up and went to medical transcription which at least lets you get up from your chair whenever you want to.
@AnnHurd Yep! I'm with Daily Transcripts, and Transcription Institute - nice places to freelance for, but listening to some of that content - i want to tell so many people to shut up.
I need hepl with this questinos pleave help me people :)
(answer for test)
1) How will you mark something that you can't hear in the audio file?
- A [inaudible]
- B (inaudible 00:1:50)
- C [inaudible 00:1:50]
2 The client requires time stamping every two minutes. You need to transcribe the 20-30 minute part of the audio. Where do you start time stamping?
- A [00:00:00]
- B [00:20:00]
- C [00:02:00]
3) Choose the correct form for full verbatim:
- A I I I don't think this is c c correct
- B I don't think this is correct
- C I-I-I don't think this is c-c-correct
4) If a client requires timestamping on speaker change, which format would that be?
- A [00:10:53] interwiever:
- B (00:10:53) interwiever:
- C Interwiever [00:10:53]:
5) How will you mark something that you can’t quite distinguish in the audio file?
- A (unintelligible 00:01:50)
- B [unintelligible]
- C (unintelligible 00:01:50)
- D [unintelligible 00:01:50]
6) If a client requests timestamping every two minutes, how would it look?
- A [00:06:00]
- B [00:02:00]
- C (00:04:00)
Justin Irwin Read the guidelines
and for your final exam you're going to have to transcribe Donald Trump and make it attempt to make sense. Good luck with that.
HA! Yeah, it's not easy. His speech pattern is... unique to say the least.
But he only operates at the level of a Grade 1 kid so at least he doesn't have a huge vocabulary. And think of all the lovely racist, anti-feminist, and "grab her pu**y" remarks you'd get to transcribe. You don't hear that stuff too often on audio files !
i am also medical transcriptionist.............
lol