Hi, there.
I'm back. I just wrote a comment from my brother's blog about the gasoline price hike to around 60 pesos per liter. He wrote some issues about not buying from Petron or Caltex in June or not buying from Shell in July or something. All I know is that I made my comment there. He asked me to.
It wasn't a hard thing to do. I actually enjoyed it. I explained to people what I did for a living and where I work.
Well, I hope that people will get to read what I wrote even if my ending wasn't related to the body of my comment.
By the way, the title "The Transcriptionist's Office" will soon be a reality. I hope and pray when I start my own.
I'm a general transcriptionist, as I have said in my previous post. And I have big plans for this industry, I must say. I plan to stay long in this career since I've switched from being a writer to a transcriptionist.
Well, I guess, that's life. The inevitable happens.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Transcriptionist is In
Hi there, bloggers!
I'm back after a hiatus of several months. I stopped blogging because I would rather work than blog.
Anyway, I would like to explain something. Most of the time people would ask me what a general transcriptionist is because that is my profession now. I've switched from a writer to a transcriptionist.
It's someone who would receive audio files online from clients and then he/she would download the file into his/her computer and then put it in Express Scribe so that he/she could easily hear the audio by using the function keys as start/stop/play/rewind. Others would opt for the foot pedal to control the audio.
Then as that is done, he/she would then have to open a Word file, then if there is a format needed, do the formatting for that client and then start the transcription.
Once the audio is ready, the person can start typing everything that is heard on the audio. Just make sure that what you hear is what you type and you have to know how to end the sentence, or where to put the commas, the quotations and the periods. Of course, don't forget to spell the words correctly. Guys, I mean this is just typing what you hear verbatim. But sometimes, the uhms and the ahs, the you knows are not included anymore. This is called the clean transcript.
You see, if only Filipinos could listen very well and have a good grasp of the English language, it would be easy to transcribe for people here and abroad for a fee. It's a very decent job and you can even do it at home as long as you have a broadband or DSL Cable connection for your research, yes, you have to do some research on terms like medical, architecture, IT, etc because those are important in the transcript. If you are a transcriptionist and you have poor spelling abilities, your client won't give you more stuff to do.
I'm lucky I studied in a good school, Immaculate Conception Academy in Greenhills way back in the 80s and it turned out that my English is fair or a little higher than that. I'm not saying I'm really that good, I still have a lot to learn as I go through the daily chores of transcribing.
But transcription is for everyone, whether you're a college student who wants to earn on the side, a housewife who has nothing to do during her free time, or an employee who wants to earn more for the family. It doesn't choose which profession you are in as long as you can understand English, that's fine.
There are tough accents to consider though. But it would be easy for you if you watch different movies every week and try to listen to their dialogues. You will get what I mean in due time. That's my training when I was a teenager. I didn't know I would end up as a transcriptionist, how do I know?
Well, for those of you who want to learn this job, better get your fingers ready because you would need to do a lot of typing, I mean typing fast but 98% accurate that is. You can type fast but your accuracy is just 80%, that's not enough. You have to aim higher. And you should type the correct way, the QWERTY way to make it easier for you. Or if you're used to your typing style, that's fine as long as you type accurately.
Well, so much for the transcription lesson. I hope you learned something today.
Nothing much is written about transcription in our country. I hope to start a forum about this one of these days.
Thank you and good luck.
I'm back after a hiatus of several months. I stopped blogging because I would rather work than blog.
Anyway, I would like to explain something. Most of the time people would ask me what a general transcriptionist is because that is my profession now. I've switched from a writer to a transcriptionist.
It's someone who would receive audio files online from clients and then he/she would download the file into his/her computer and then put it in Express Scribe so that he/she could easily hear the audio by using the function keys as start/stop/play/rewind. Others would opt for the foot pedal to control the audio.
Then as that is done, he/she would then have to open a Word file, then if there is a format needed, do the formatting for that client and then start the transcription.
Once the audio is ready, the person can start typing everything that is heard on the audio. Just make sure that what you hear is what you type and you have to know how to end the sentence, or where to put the commas, the quotations and the periods. Of course, don't forget to spell the words correctly. Guys, I mean this is just typing what you hear verbatim. But sometimes, the uhms and the ahs, the you knows are not included anymore. This is called the clean transcript.
You see, if only Filipinos could listen very well and have a good grasp of the English language, it would be easy to transcribe for people here and abroad for a fee. It's a very decent job and you can even do it at home as long as you have a broadband or DSL Cable connection for your research, yes, you have to do some research on terms like medical, architecture, IT, etc because those are important in the transcript. If you are a transcriptionist and you have poor spelling abilities, your client won't give you more stuff to do.
I'm lucky I studied in a good school, Immaculate Conception Academy in Greenhills way back in the 80s and it turned out that my English is fair or a little higher than that. I'm not saying I'm really that good, I still have a lot to learn as I go through the daily chores of transcribing.
But transcription is for everyone, whether you're a college student who wants to earn on the side, a housewife who has nothing to do during her free time, or an employee who wants to earn more for the family. It doesn't choose which profession you are in as long as you can understand English, that's fine.
There are tough accents to consider though. But it would be easy for you if you watch different movies every week and try to listen to their dialogues. You will get what I mean in due time. That's my training when I was a teenager. I didn't know I would end up as a transcriptionist, how do I know?
Well, for those of you who want to learn this job, better get your fingers ready because you would need to do a lot of typing, I mean typing fast but 98% accurate that is. You can type fast but your accuracy is just 80%, that's not enough. You have to aim higher. And you should type the correct way, the QWERTY way to make it easier for you. Or if you're used to your typing style, that's fine as long as you type accurately.
Well, so much for the transcription lesson. I hope you learned something today.
Nothing much is written about transcription in our country. I hope to start a forum about this one of these days.
Thank you and good luck.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Got Home Work
Well, it's been ages since I've written here. I don't normally write in my blog because I just keep the memories to myself that's why sometimes, I forget. At present, life is quite confusing. Our maid has been in and out of the house for 2 days and she's saying that she's going to come back this morning but she isn't here yet. She's such a liar, and I mean a genuine liar and I'm sure she'd have excuses to tell me again. I don't know what she takes us for - gullible people or something or that we trust her so much. I'm sorry I tell her some things but it's okay.
Secrets are meant to be blurted out anyway. That's why these days I don't want to talk to her that much but there's nothing I could do. I don't have anyone to talk with at home except my one year old little girl, my two teenaged children and my mother.
The Got Home Work is something I enjoy doing even if it doesn't pay much. I'm still waiting for people to pay me or react to me. No one has reacted to me yet. I already passed my files.
I don't know. Life right now is undefinable to me. I hope you understand.
See you guys around!
Secrets are meant to be blurted out anyway. That's why these days I don't want to talk to her that much but there's nothing I could do. I don't have anyone to talk with at home except my one year old little girl, my two teenaged children and my mother.
The Got Home Work is something I enjoy doing even if it doesn't pay much. I'm still waiting for people to pay me or react to me. No one has reacted to me yet. I already passed my files.
I don't know. Life right now is undefinable to me. I hope you understand.
See you guys around!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
In The Office
There are so many things you learn when you're in the office. Like you have to type information in someone's contacts list, or you have to copy links to a file, or encode a voice transcription into an excel file, or just type in a transcription into a word file.
Or at times, learn from your officemates about life in general. They share experiences you've never encountered before. Or they'll share their insights on some thoughts.
You see, in life, we never stop learning. We learn new things everyday, we discover new angles to old ideas, that there was such a thing as this or that. When other people think that what they know is what's important. Well, it doesn't work that way. That idea may be passe already and it needs some polishing and it has to have more than what it already has.
This saying may not be related to what I'm discussing here but as what people say, there's always hope when you're alive and kicking. So, there's still a chance for those people who are living to change their ways, learn from their mistakes, learn how to bend and be humble and think about things in a different light and not to stick to what they believe in.
This doesn't just apply only to the office environment. This applies to every place we know - the school, the home, the church, wherever else you can think of.
Think about it.
Or at times, learn from your officemates about life in general. They share experiences you've never encountered before. Or they'll share their insights on some thoughts.
You see, in life, we never stop learning. We learn new things everyday, we discover new angles to old ideas, that there was such a thing as this or that. When other people think that what they know is what's important. Well, it doesn't work that way. That idea may be passe already and it needs some polishing and it has to have more than what it already has.
This saying may not be related to what I'm discussing here but as what people say, there's always hope when you're alive and kicking. So, there's still a chance for those people who are living to change their ways, learn from their mistakes, learn how to bend and be humble and think about things in a different light and not to stick to what they believe in.
This doesn't just apply only to the office environment. This applies to every place we know - the school, the home, the church, wherever else you can think of.
Think about it.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Back in Business
Well, hello, there! It's me again. It's been almost a month since the time that I blogged here. I just want to say that it's good to be back again. I mean blogging. There's just one thing. I had a creative writing student but he stopped coming over and didn't even tell me he'd be stopping. That's so grrr! I mean he didn't even text me a day before or what. I even made a powerpoint presentation for the day's lesson then, he just didn't appear.
Some people have the nerve, right? I didn't even charge him anything for the time and effort that I gave him. It's not fair. But what can I do? I'm not an expert on the subject, I just wanted to help. At least, have the decency to tell me that I'm not helping or anything that's why we'd have to stop the lessons.
Anyway, I just got a babysitter last Monday and I plan to go back to work with a vengeance by not taking my days off, if they will permit me. I want to prove to them that I'm not that pabaya with my work. And that the job is really for me and I want to help the firm achieve its goals through my services, if I could really help.
Please pray for me that I will be given the chance to work. I just want to pay back my absences. And make up for lost time.
Some people have the nerve, right? I didn't even charge him anything for the time and effort that I gave him. It's not fair. But what can I do? I'm not an expert on the subject, I just wanted to help. At least, have the decency to tell me that I'm not helping or anything that's why we'd have to stop the lessons.
Anyway, I just got a babysitter last Monday and I plan to go back to work with a vengeance by not taking my days off, if they will permit me. I want to prove to them that I'm not that pabaya with my work. And that the job is really for me and I want to help the firm achieve its goals through my services, if I could really help.
Please pray for me that I will be given the chance to work. I just want to pay back my absences. And make up for lost time.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
In the Office, finally
Hello, there! I'm here now in B&M office and I finally got a permanent job, not contractual, not just temporary, I mean probationary right at the start. I'm so happy that this company took me in and appreciates my talents. That I am worth hiring in their company. What more can I say? I should do well so that I would be regularized in 3 months or so.
I just am so lucky I was one of the chosen ones to be part of the document support centre of this company. I'm part of the voice file transcription specialist team. I'm more of a transcriber and I will get to practice my talent here.
Wish me luck!
Thank you.
I just am so lucky I was one of the chosen ones to be part of the document support centre of this company. I'm part of the voice file transcription specialist team. I'm more of a transcriber and I will get to practice my talent here.
Wish me luck!
Thank you.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Jobs
Today, I made a boo-boo. I told a client that I couldn't finish the job and they almost reprimanded me for doing so. I should've told them ahead of time and that I shouldn't have made promises that I could accomplish the job in a certain period of time. Although I really did want to make the deadline longer but I wasn't certain they would do so. I feel like such a failure at this point. I should've told them earlier and gave them all back because I couldn't do it. I was even told that I could raise my price if it was difficult or something. I wasn't really after the difficulty or whatever it is, I was after the quality of the work to be done. It was really such a terrible thing that I did. I mean I couldn't really get my mind off of it. Well, I learned something - if I have a bad feeling about it, do not accept it. Yes, I learned my lesson. Actually, right at the start, it was really something like a disaster already. I could foretell it was because I wanted to back out already because I didn't have the proper equipment, they didn't want to let go. Number two, I wanted to see if I could do it, the girl was giving me just two tapes and she decided to give me all the tapes. Then, the next day, I called her and told her I don't think I could do it because it was really such a mess I mean the people in the tape were all talking at the same time that it was going to be hard for me to understand and it would take a longer time for me to transcribe it. But she told me to go on with it. I really wanted to back out then. But the girl was insistent.
But now, it seems it was all my fault that I failed. I still went on with the project. I feel so bad about it. It's my credibility that was at stake. And it's gone. But I guess I just have to face it bravely, without fear because we all are humans and we make mistakes. We should learn from them.
And to add to the injury, when I went to the BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE, I had cases that I didn't know existed. My gosh! I still had to pay taxes. I'm just a small fish compared to the famous actors and actresses who really run away from paying their taxes. I just can't imagine my life situation like this.
I'm not a criminal so why do I have to suffer this way? Is it karma? Because I've been so haughty against some people in the neighborhood? Well, whatever it is, it would all be over. Soon.
But now, it seems it was all my fault that I failed. I still went on with the project. I feel so bad about it. It's my credibility that was at stake. And it's gone. But I guess I just have to face it bravely, without fear because we all are humans and we make mistakes. We should learn from them.
And to add to the injury, when I went to the BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE, I had cases that I didn't know existed. My gosh! I still had to pay taxes. I'm just a small fish compared to the famous actors and actresses who really run away from paying their taxes. I just can't imagine my life situation like this.
I'm not a criminal so why do I have to suffer this way? Is it karma? Because I've been so haughty against some people in the neighborhood? Well, whatever it is, it would all be over. Soon.
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