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How to Deal with Background Noise from Audio Transcription

Background noise from audio transcription is really annoying while transcribing. It slows you down because you need to exert extra effort to hear what the speaker is saying, thus reducing your productivity.     A number of devices are available to reduce the background noise. The ExpressScribe also has some features to do this, but it is not enough. Another one is Audacity where you can clear up background noise from audio transcription. Readers of this post are encouraged to share devices or ways to reduce background noise on voice files. Please feel free to comment below.

Five Ways to Improve your Transcription Skills

Whether we are new graduates or veterans in the transcription industry, we still have this craving to improve in our transcription skills. This is either due to the call of duty or because of our sheer passion for the transcription industry. In summary, these are five of the ways we can improve on our transcription skills, develop liking for the job a particular client offers – even if we do not seem to like it, develop liking for the line or field a client is into to increase our interest in their field, review the specifications of our clients every morning before transcription work, compare and merge our works with the perfect files after every shift to review our errors as our rest, and then listen to the files again in order to sharpen our listening skills. Like the Files of the Client Why would develop a liking for the job a particular client offers this be important? Ever wonder how we perform a certain activity if we lack the interest for it, for example, washing dishes? We do ...

Some Medical Terms Must Know

Dix-Hallpike Test – Also called Nylen-Barany test is a diagnostic maneuver used to identify benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Epley maneuver (or Epley’s exercises) – a maneuver used to treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Child-Pugh classification (or Child-Turcotte-Pugh score) – used to assess the prognosis of chronic liver disease, mainly cirrhosis. MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) – a scoring system for assessing the severity of the chronic liver disease. Trisomy 21 (commonly called Down syndrome) – a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. Reparil (Aescin) – coated tablets or gel – inhibit edema and inflammation, reduce swelling.

Good Listening and Typing skills to become a Transcriptionist

Welcome to The Transcriptionists Profiles, a series of interviews with people who are working as transcriptionists. My name is Archie, the author/administrator of Transcriptionist Hub. In this article, I will feature my interview with Karen Gay S. Jaen. Welcome to the interview. Thank you for taking the interest of this opportunity. Karen: Welcome. Archie: To start, can you please tell me your current designation or level as a transcriptionist? (e.g. senior MT)? What is your location? Where are you presently connected? Karen: I have an application before as a transcriber in Transcribe18.com but apparently I was not able to get the job but I already took a test on it. Archie: How long have you been working as a transcriptionist? How did you start in this profession? What are the factors that prompted you to pursue a career in this field? Karen: Factors that prompted me to pursue in this field is because it is easy to be a transcriber in a sense that if you have good listening skill...