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    Quick Guide to your Career in Transcription
    Quick Guide to your Career in Transcription
    Quick Guide to your Career in Transcription
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    Quick Guide to your Career in Transcription

    By Liz Broomfield

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    Do you fancy a career as a transcriber? Are you sure you're suited for it? What tools do you need? How do you attract clients and do a professional job? What hints and tips can save you time and optimise your income as a transcriber?

    All of these questions are covered in this guide to transcription as a career, with very specific, tailored information on the tools of the trade as well as more general information on freelancing and job seeking.

    If you've always wondered what it would take to start up your career as a transcriber, read this book now and get useful and friendly advice that I've shared with new colleagues over the years, and that I know will work for you!

    If you buy this book and enjoy reading it, please publish a review here and on your blog if you have one - it really helps to spread the word! Thank you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiz Broomfield
    Release dateFeb 6, 2015
    ISBN9781311076526
    Quick Guide to your Career in Transcription
    Author

    Liz Broomfield

    I'm a self-employed editor, proofreader, localiser and transcriber (who happens to have fought high cholesterol and won) and I'm passionate about sharing the lessons I've learned along the way to help other people. My books use my own personal experience to show you how you can achieve similar results. No gimmicks, nothing to download or buy (except for the books), no schemes to join, just good, old-fashioned common sense. I tell you exactly what I did, and share my experiences, good and bad, and I try to provide some useful resources, too, where you can find more information. I hope you enjoy reading my books. As an independent author, I don't have a huge marketing machine behind me. So if you read and like one of my books, please consider submitting a review, and sharing your purchase on your social networks - thank you!

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      Quick Guide to your Career in Transcription - Liz Broomfield

      Quick Guide to your career in Transcription

      © Liz Broomfield 2013

      Information in this book is drawn together from information first published on my blog at www.libroediting.com. Visit the blog for more careers and other advice.

      Introduction

      Welcome to this quick guide to transcription as a career.

      It’s quick because it aims to give you all of the information to get up and running in as short a space as possible. But it’s packed with information and insights on how to get started as a transcriber, tricks of the trade, and more general information about working as a freelancer and getting jobs.

      I’ve been working as a transcriber since 2010, although I originally trained in audio-typing back in 1993! I got my very first transcription job via Twitter (and I’ll share some hints about how to do that later on, as I believe it’s a very good way to get transcription work in particular), when a music journalist who I followed asked if anyone knew of a good transcriber. I’ve done audio-typing, I thought, How hard can it be? So I pitched for and got the job, transcribing an interview with a rock star (ooh!) … and had a bit of a time of it.

      I didn’t know what technology to use to control my tape – I didn’t even know that there WAS special technology. So I ran the tape through Windows Media Player and clicked into that window every time I wanted to stop it. No pedals here, and no tape player, either! I didn’t’ really know how to use Autocorrect to my advantage … I was basically all at sea in a mass of inefficiency – and I certainly wish that I’d had somebody to advise me!

      Since then, I’ve built up the transcription side of my business to include more music journalists, political journalists, individual entrepreneurs who need transcripts of podcasts and agencies that produce conference reports. I’ve built up a dual specialism in people who are speaking non-native English and those musicians (a surprising number of larger agencies don’t like tapes with swearing etc. on them – I’m not bothered by that, so I’ve carved out a niche for myself there). I don’t do it full time, as I’m also an editor, proofreader and localiser, but it’s certainly an important – and enjoyable – part of my business.

      In this guide, I’m going to share with you …

      What transcription actually is

      Why human transcribers are still necessary (useful information for yourself and for prospective clients!)

      How to work out whether you’re suited for transcription

      How to build your skills

      How to actually work as a professional transcriber

      I’m also going to give you some tools for making transcription quicker and more efficient, mainly centring around using AutoCorrect in Word. Then, at the end, the appendices will give you some useful tips on setting up as a freelancer and ways to get freelance work.

      I really hope that you enjoy this book and find it useful. PLEASE post a review wherever you bought it, blog about it and spread the word. As an independent publisher, I don’t have the force of a marketing department behind me, and all of the online book websites use reviews and ratings to calculate who they show books to and how they promote them, so every review and share and mention really helps!

      If you want to get in touch with me, do drop me a line at liz@libroediting.com or via the website www.libroediting.com. I love hearing from my readers!

      What is transcription?

      Basically, transcription involves listening to a recording of something and typing the contents up into a document, which is then returned to the client, giving them a written

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