Monday, 21 November 2011

How to Save money on Transcription Service

10 Best ways to save money on Transcription Services. Just follow the below mentioned guide lines to Speed up transcription, avoid mistakes and delays and save lot of money.
Use a quality microphone. Keep the microphone near the speakers.
Check the power in the dictation equipment.
If using you are using tapes, use tapes which is designed for voice dictation. They filters background noise. Demagnetize and clean tapes regularly.
Erase the tape before dictation and mention the end of the transcription to avoid transcribing old material.
Make sure you rewind the tape to the beginning of the dictation.
Dictate in a quiet environment (Without any background noise). Turn off the TV and radio. Distance the microphone from air conditioners and fans. Avoid noise, music, and acoustics in restaurants, airplanes and outdoors.
Instruct people not to talk simultaneously. Identify all speakers. Speak clearly
Please don’t eat or drink when dictating.
Discuss the purpose of the transcription and style preferences with the transcription company or transcriber. Do you need a verbatim transcript for legal purposes? Do you need to include sounds like uh, hmmm, um? Do you need to indicate laughter and long pauses?
Avoid delays and costly revisions by spelling unusual words and words with questionable spelling, i.e. Katherine, Catherine, Kathryn or Caterine. Provide supporting documents and words the transcriptionist may not be familiar with such as technical terms, names, streets, and cities.
Call us to know to know more about how you can save money on transcription or visit us at www.quicktranscriptionservice.com (+1-646-233-4145). Our services starts at $0.75/min

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