Transcribing interviews and such

[Tim Wilson]

I use Temi sometimes, and I do like editing the text in the cloud. The player integration is quite slick.

But for heavy lifting, I pay the extra dough for Scribie. I was one of their first customers (just by accident — I had no idea), and was thrilled to see them add pretty much every suggestion I ever made.

What I like best about them is that they use real humans, and will scale exactitude to your specification. That is, it starts at 80 cents for 99% accuracy with a 36 hour turnaround, but if you want 100% accuracy, it’s another 50 cents. There are other upcharges for bad recordings or heavily accented speakers, or for them to output to an SRT/VTT file, but you know what, the difference between them and other services is STAGGERING.

I don’t mind confessing it here because I’m among friends, but I’ve had Scribie transcriptions so startling in their accuracy — things like them looking up model numbers in technical interviews and getting weird product capitalizations EXACTLY right — that I was able to copy-paste paragraph after paragraph directly into articles I’ve written with NO additional editing. As many interviews as I’ve done, I can’t even count how many hours Scribie has saved me — thousands, for sure.

You won’t need this level of finesse for every interview, and yeah, no doubt, the price can add up, but when you need it done 100% right, Scribie is who you need to use.

[Neil Mcclure]

Hi Guys
It seems that rev and temi are owned by the same company! Anyway for me being able to have a client collaborate on a interview is what I want. I need them to select the go takes and I like that it appears easy with revtemi. You can only share trint files by sending a copy that they can edit but then you can’t. To fix this its $40 a month. Maybe oK if i’ve got lots to do… maybe. Have a interview job that is confidential so can only use an auto service. However for the projects I would probably go the real person route. Either way price is real good. So hello REV

Thanks Guys

Video Production – Videographer
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.mcmm.com.au

[Jim Brodie]

I’ve found that the free app Goggle Docs – < go to Tools, Voice typing > is very good and improving all the time…. there are strange phonetic spellings at times but it isnt bad for transcibing a few hours of material. I find it also helps me to get more familiar with the material as I do the transcribing in short blocks of five to six minute segments.

I’m certainly going to check out this new service. Thank you for your info.

All the Best,

Jim