Transcribe your audio biography for as little as 20⏠per audio hour and help people around the world. A biography is not a book. A biography is a recorded story of someoneâs Life Story using any system that is appropriate. But a biography can be a book! Once youâve recorded your audio Life Story in conversation [âŠ]
Transcribe your audio biography for as little as 20⏠per audio hour and help people around the world.
A biography is not a book. A biography is a recorded story of someoneâs Life Story using any system that is appropriate.
But a biography can be a book!
Once youâve recorded your audio Life Story in conversation or as self directed storytelling you may choose to convert the audio into text. The advantage of text is, most people still think of a biography as a book and with the addition of photographs and diagrams you can tell the story in a richer more edited style, instead of the rambling of raw audio. An alternative is to also edit the audio to be more interesting and concise and possibly blending it with images into digital storytelling.
The problems of transcribing
The advantages test is to enable people to follow along with the audio or evolve it into a book with some editing and story structure.
The issues normally start with the process of transcribing the audio. Unless youâre trained, transcribing is time consuming at a rate of about 8 hours per audio hour and  frustrating task. Alternatively you could outsource the work but for most people it can often be prohibitively expensive. Sadly this is where most people stop as there are normally no alternatives.
One day machine transcription will make it possible for any audio to be converted into text but for the moment the best we can hope for is an accuracy of 97% with fully trained transcriptions software. If we use untrained  software on a normal conversation particularly with two people, the performance plummets making it unusable. So for the moment we need to contend with manual, human transcription.
Millions of trained professionals without work.
In the second world there are millions of university qualified people who arenât using their skills but forced into menial, untrained or manual labour work, just to earn an income. They want to use their skills but donât have any opportunity. This is like spending 4 years to qualify in something just to end up as a waitress.
What if there was a way of giving intelligent, qualified and skilled people in developing countries an opportunity to earn a living and help us in the first world deal with the cost of  transcribing our audio.
A cheap alternative to transcribe audio to text.
Transfairâs creator Stephan de la Peña tells us in this episode of Create Your Life Story about how heâs developing the market and talent to transcribe your audio for much less than normal costs while helping less fortunate people to have a future closer to their skill base.
What Transfair is achieving is
* Coordinating skilled workers with clients.
* Testing skills before assigning work.
* Assess tasks before assigning.
* Checking completed work.
* Coordinate payment.
A biography is not a book. A biography is a recorded story of someoneâs Life Story using any system that is appropriate.
But a biography can be a book!
Once youâve recorded your audio Life Story in conversation or as self directed storytelling you may choose to convert the audio into text. The advantage of text is, most people still think of a biography as a book and with the addition of photographs and diagrams you can tell the story in a richer more edited style, instead of the rambling of raw audio. An alternative is to also edit the audio to be more interesting and concise and possibly blending it with images into digital storytelling.
The advantages test is to enable people to follow along with the audio or evolve it into a book with some editing and story structure.
The issues normally start with the process of transcribing the audio. Unless youâre trained, transcribing is time consuming at a rate of about 8 hours per audio hour and  frustrating task. Alternatively you could outsource the work but for most people it can often be prohibitively expensive. Sadly this is where most people stop as there are normally no alternatives.
One day machine transcription will make it possible for any audio to be converted into text but for the moment the best we can hope for is an accuracy of 97% with fully trained transcriptions software. If we use untrained  software on a normal conversation particularly with two people, the performance plummets making it unusable. So for the moment we need to contend with manual, human transcription.
In the second world there are millions of university qualified people who arenât using their skills but forced into menial, untrained or manual labour work, just to earn an income. They want to use their skills but donât have any opportunity. This is like spending 4 years to qualify in something just to end up as a waitress.
What if there was a way of giving intelligent, qualified and skilled people in developing countries an opportunity to earn a living and help us in the first world deal with the cost of  transcribing our audio.
Stephan de la Peña & Sandro Langholz
Transfairâs creator Stephan de la Peña tells us in this episode of Create Your Life Story about how heâs developing the market and talent to transcribe your audio for much less than normal costs while helping less fortunate people to have a future closer to their skill base.
What Transfair is achieving is
When it comes time to consider transcribing your audio look into the services offered by Transfair to see if they suit your requirements.
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