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This Transcriptionist’s Profile was originally published on August 5, 2010. Here we featured D.V.V.S.Murthy . Below was the transcript of the interview with Mr. Murthy . Mr. Murthy: I am glad to talk with you and participate in your projects. Archie: First, please tell me what is your profession or job now (current designation, e.g. senior MT) and where are you located? (If possible, you can write your present company) Mr. Murthy: At present, I am a freelancer working on various Data Editing/Data Processing/BPO-IT Enabled projects for some reputed software companies in India. Archie: How did you end up being in your profession or job (as a transcriptionist) now? How long have you been working in that job (transcriptionist)? Mr. Murthy: I had worked in the field of General/Medical Transcription for a period of one year and now I am doing the above-mentioned projects for the past 2-years. I am looking to work as a part-time General Transcription. If I am successful in your project t...

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Someone who aspires to succeed in doing 500 lines a day transcription must practice more, of course. For example, if you are already done with your audio file, you may review by listening to the audio a couple of times. Proofread your transcript and try to acknowledge your strong and weak points when it comes to hearing and comprehending the words spoken in the file. Some conventional way to improve your listening skill is through watching movies or even listening to English songs. It can be a usual daily routine but by so doing, you will be more familiar with the way Americans speak their language, their slang words, their accent and even their humor. Being an audio transcriptionist must be confident enough to do the job. Set your mind to something you really want to do. Just improve along the way and attain more training. Five hundred lines a day transcription is a rather difficult goal if you only wonder about it, but not impossible. If you would only have the initiative and the mot...

In my opinion, if a transcriptionist has a good grasp of the English language specifically basic grammar and has good pronunciation skills, I think, they can be an online English teacher working from home . There are a lot of home based companies all over the world particularly Asia who are looking for online English teachers to work from their homes. Being such entails good listening skills and typing skills as well. The reason for this is because they have to be able to correct the student with as much precision with regards to their grammar and pronunciation slips. Having a good listening skill, thus, helps. In accordance with this, they have to type down the wrong sentences of the student and then correct them afterward by typing in again the correct sentences. In this field, you have to be adept with the basic grammar rules. I think I transcriptionist can definitely do this job. I for one am an Online English teacher and I wanted to have another source of income so I thought why n...