{"id":23,"date":"2006-03-31T05:57:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-03-31T05:57:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:57:31","slug":"online-transciption-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"online transciption service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evoca.com\">this<\/a> (found through <a href=\"http:\/\/memex.naughtons.org\/archives\/2006\/03\/31\/2691\">John Naughton<\/a>) be an actually useful Web 2.0 app? I can&#8217;t see the use, if you have learned to read and write, of private podcasting, which is the main selling point &#8212; essentially, this service is a kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a> for voice recordings; but then the world is obviously full of people to whom reading and writing remain unnatural skills, and who far prefer sound and preferably moving pictures.<\/p>\n\n<p>There is one useful service here for the command line types. The company <a href=\"http:\/\/evoca.helpserve.com\/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&amp;_a=viewarticle&amp;kbarticleid=5&amp;nav=0%2C8\">does transcriptions,<\/a> at 80&#162; a minute, of any recordings sent in and promises to have them back within 48 hours. (Note how literacy here becomes a skill to be outsourced to the poor). I reckon that works out at about &pound;30 an hour, which is a sum that I and others might well pay for decent transcriptions &#8212; they do, after all, take maybe five times as long to transcribe as they do to listen to. The only question is the quality of the results. I am spoiled now by the excellent <span class=\"caps\">BBC <\/span>transcription service, but I have known some frightful typos and brainos appear when ordinary audio secretaries transcribe interviews.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this (found through John Naughton) be an actually useful Web 2.0 app? I can&#8217;t see the use, if you have learned to read and write, of private podcasting, which is the main selling point &#8212; essentially, this service is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=23\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=23\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}