Search Results for: blog well what about legal and general transcriptionists are they outdated

Week in Review for April 21 – 27

Posted on by

Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for April 21 – 27. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week! This week, we had a lot of fun talking about transcription, and then medical transcription in particular. If you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in touch with me at Hava L {at} Families dot com! Thanks for reading! Saturday, April 21 Are Medical Transcriptionists Going the Way of Dinosaurs? talks about the idea that most people seem to … Continue reading →

Well, What about Legal and General Transcriptionists–Are They Outdated?

Posted on by

This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Thanks! Legal and general transcription are even less prone to VR (voice recognition) technology than MT work. General transcription usually consists of transcribing many different people every single day, which VR technology is in no way ready to tackle. I have transcribed focus groups talking about whatever random topic they were assigned (cell phones, schooling and teachers, ant killing chemicals,) and I had great difficulty understanding … Continue reading →

Are Medical Transcriptionists Going the Way of Dinosaurs?

Posted on by

This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Are medical transcriptionists going the way of the dinosaurs? The short answer is most definitely not. The long answer is, well, longer. 😛 Several years ago, I learned about medical transcription, and thought, “Well, that’s a pretty easy job–all you have to do is type what the doctor says.” After studying to become an MT for 18 months at Career Step, I have to say: It’s … Continue reading →

An Introduction to Transcription

Posted on by

Hello, and welcome to my series on the transcription field! I decided to focus on transcription because many of the readers here at Families are stay-at-home mothers and fathers who are interested in finding work they can do at home, and transcription is one of the few legitimate work-at-home jobs out there that does not require you to be on the phones all day long. I hope this series helps people who have never heard of the field to understand what it is, what personality traits you ought to have to be a transcriptionist, and how to get started if … Continue reading →