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Starting today, you can also order a subtitle file along with the transcript. The subtitle file will be formatted as SBV file which is the format used by YouTube. The additional charge for subtitling is $1.00 per minute of audio. This option can be enabled from the payment page. If you plan to always order […]
Now you can save even more on your transcription costs with our discount coupons. Starting today, you can apply coupon codes and get a discount for your transcript orders. Press the coupon button on the invoices page, enter the coupon code and press Apply button to get the discount. The coupon codes will be […]
QuickPay is our one-click payment system where you can choose to save your credit card details and use that for future payments. The credit card credentials are stored securely in the vault provided by our payment gateway provider; Braintree Payments. The valut is PCI Level 1 compliant and your credentials are safe there. The QuickPay […]
We have now enabled file trimming on Scribie.com. If you have a audio file and need only parts of it transcribed then you can trim the audio file and remove the unwanted parts before placing the order, thus saving your costs. The Trim File option is available from both, the Uploaded Files and Invoice pages […]
Dropbox is a popular cloud storage service and it’s not surprising therefore that many customers have asked for the ability to import files directly from Dropbox to their Scribie.com account for transcription. We have now added Dropbox Importer to our uploader. Visit the following link to try it out. https://scribie.com/files/upload#dropbox The first step is to […]
The Integrated Editor is a text editor which is tightly coupled with the audio file of a transcript for easy cross-referencing. We use this tool internally for Proofreading and QC. Today we are releasing this tool for our customers as well. The editor can be launched from the Check & Download button on the Recordings […]
We talked a bit about our platform in the previous post. We are a new kind of platform and the best way to describe us is a Mechanical Turk like system designed specifically for audio transcription. If you are not familiar with Mechanical Turk, it is a service by Amazon where you can post tasks […]
One of the most frequent questions/feature requests we get is support for post-payment. We require payment to be made upfront for all transcript orders and for a lot of our customers, that is not an option. This requirement leads to a lot of questions and in this blog post we will explain why we do […]
We impose a delivery limit of 2 hours of transcripts per day per user. If you order more than 2 hours of transcripts in a day then the deliveries are staggered such that you get around 2 hours of transcripts per day. For example, if you order 4 files of 1 hours each (approximately) then […]
Our transcription rates have been increased to $1.50 per minute of audio with effect from 1st of June 2012. That corresponds to $90 for a 1 hour file. The Flexible Delivery discount has been increased to 25%. Flexible Delivery orders are delivered anytime within a week instead of the normal 1 day delivery schedule. Â It […]
This is a series of posts on our human-powered audio transcription system. The following are links to the previous parts: Overview, Workflow, Certification, Transcription & Reviews, Proofreading. Delivery is the final step of our workflow. Here we perform quality checks on the final transcript that was prepared in the previous step to determine if the transcript is deliverable. When […]
One of the unique features of our Transcription System is that you can monitor the progress and check the Work-In-Progress transcript anytime from your account. The progress is the percentage completion based on the stage of the workflow the file is in at any given point of time. It maps in the following way. Range Stage 0-59% Transcription 60-89% […]