If you’ve been watching the media recently, you may have seen reports of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) targeting small businesses (including one of our fellow transcription companies) who use contract employees to deliver service to their clients. These reports…
Research shows that your brain can only remember 10-20% of the information it receives from verbal sources, so the value of having that information transcribed is indisputable. Helping people to capture and retrieve this information quickly using speech recognition software…
New Year’s Eve is a time of great hope, anticipation and excitement around the world. In Australia it’s one of the most significant occasions in the social calendar, typically celebrated together with friends, drinking champagne, watching the New Year’s Eve…
Christmas is probably the most celebrated holiday in the world, with modern Christmas traditions a product of hundreds of years of both secular and religious practices from around the globe. Christmas is typically celebrated on Christmas Day (December 25th), however…
Audio recorders can capture sound in a variety of file formats, however to make transcription of your files faster and more efficient, it is always desirable to submit your audio in a standard format such as .mp3 or .wav. In…
Audio transcription is the process of transforming the spoken word from an ephemeral moment, into a tangible, permanent record. It is used by a surprisingly broad range of people from academics to financial advisers, medical practitioners, the media, and members…
The Transcription People (TTP) is an Australian-based company founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Annalisa Brimo. TTP are specialists in outsourced digital and analogue transcription of single and multi-speaker audio. We transcribe from a variety of sources including interviews, meetings, conferences,…
On the surface, proofreading an audio transcript appears to be one of the simplest tasks on the planet – after all you are merely checking that the written word matches the spoken word, right? Unfortunately this is a fallacy, as…
The idea for a national day to celebrate a particular activity, item or concept is often hatched by a small group or individual, whose idea gathers momentum via social media. These days there seems to be a national day to…
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was born in Missouri on the 30th of November, 1835. The sixth of seven children, he grew up to be a talented writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, who…
