The benefits of recording and transcribing market research interviews
Leave your thoughtsMarket research is an asset to any business, regardless of its size. It can offer valuable knowledge about your clients as well as your competitors.
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New Year Poem
Leave your thoughtsHappy New Year wishes from Fingertips Two thousand and thirteen is over and done, A busy year, full of challenge and fun.
Transcription and more at your Fingertips
Leave your thoughtsHave you ever been asked to give a presentation and felt daunted by the prospect of tackling PowerPoint? Or felt the document you’re sending a client could look just that little bit better;
Transcription of Grievance Procedures
Leave your thoughtsRecording + Transcribing Formal Interviews = Good Business Sense As an employer or manager, it’s likely that you’ll have to conduct a formal interview at some point with your employees.
QWERTY: the keys to all transcription
Leave your thoughtsIf you look down from your computer screen, you will probably see that humble workhorse of every computer user, your keyboard.
Transcription over Christmas
Leave your thoughtsWell, it's nearly the end of the year again, and what a year it has been. We have transcribed a variety of material including interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Ennis and Michael Barrymore to name but a few.
Transcription not as simple as people may think
Leave your thoughtsI just read an interesting article about the expectations people have about transcription and the reality. Until you are a transcriber yourself will you only realise the skill that is required in transcribing difficult audio.
PACE yourself for PACE Transcription
Leave your thoughtsPACE Transcription stands for Police and Criminal Evidence. The police and councils record confidential and important interviews onto standard cassette tapes - yes they still use standard C90 cassette tapes!
Poorly recorded audio turns transcribers into a raging bull
Leave your thoughtsWhy do people record their interviews in noisy places? That’s the question many transcribers ask when their pedals are in overdrive as they rewind, play, rewind, play over and over again to make sense of the words lost in the background noise. Noise that is quite often oblivious to the interviewer.
Transcription….What Happens When
Leave your thoughtsYou are a one-man/woman business. Your business is talking to people, extracting information and then designing your services around their requirements.
Transcriptionist World
Leave your thoughtsIt’s not just hitting keys. Although it may seem to outsiders, that transcription is merely the keystrokes required in order to put on paper what is being said, the transcriber hears it as so much more.
Transcription for Journalists
Leave your thoughtsFingertips transcribe interviews for journalists on a regular basis. Our journalists are editors for various newspapers and magazines such as The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Radio Times, The Guardian, Readers Digest, Culture Magazine, GQ, Ellie Magazine and many more.
Summarised Transcription Explained
Leave your thoughtsummarised Transcription is a form of editing. It helps to bring out the key message whilst reducing the more general dialogue, allowing the reader to gain more value in a shorter time.
Helen Cruse loves transcribing about Higher Education
Leave your thoughtsI transcribe each week about the QAA, and with two children at University, it is a constant source of information for me.
Police interview transcription tapes – our top three
Comments Off on Police interview transcription tapes – our top threeSometimes as part of our transcription services we are asked to transcribe police interviews and they are often fascinating insights into police interrogation methods.
Transcription of interview with Calum Best
Leave your thoughtsHi – I’d like to like to tell you about a particularly interesting file that I got recently from Fingertips. It was an interview with Calum Best, George Best’s son and a famous model who is now making a film about his Dad.
How are you finding working in the heat
Comments Off on How are you finding working in the heatWell it has been in the high 20's and even 30 degrees the last couple of weeks and the weather is here to stay for another month at least, weather forecasters have predicted.