Podcast Transcription Services
Erick Schonfeld reports at B2Day about CastingWords.com, a start-up focused on building a business model using podcast transcripts.
One of the founders, Nathan McFarland, explains what the company is hoping to do: We’re a super early stage startup - the idea is to sell search ads against the keywords in the transcriptions, which we generate using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ( http://mturk.com) and some whizzy software. But we need capital to pay all those MTurk workers, so in the next few weeks we’ll be opening a store. It will allow Podcasters to purchase transcriptions of their shows. We’ll do the transcriptions and give them a full transcription - not just chunks pulled back by the search engine if it happens to index their show. Of course they automatically get listed in the engine, so this arrangement should drive traffic to them, get them transcripts, and get us the cash needed to keep on transcribing…
I checked the site and it’s not working right now, but it seems like an idea worth watching. For those that are interested in transcription services escriptionist seems to be up and running. If you find more services, add it in a comment.
December 14th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Here’s another option:
http://www.escribers.net
December 16th, 2005 at 8:30 am
We have been doing Podcast transcription for over a year now. Our website is http://www.tech-synergy.com/Podcast-transcription.htm
December 18th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Connecticut Secretary provides podcast transcription and has an upload program as well as ftp service to the server for uploading podcasts.
December 21st, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Hi, we are a full service transcription company that provides Podcastnig transcripts. We’ve done it for several large companies. We provide direct upload via ftp and a fully functional client area where you can download and retrieve your transcripts.
We provide flat rate quotes directly on-line. There are different prices for each level of complexity, but the rates are fixed.
We use a domestic work force. It’s not that we’re against outsourcing to India or other third worlds companys, it’s just that the quality just isn’t there. (Cultural context is a large part of accurate transcription.) Based on my experince, the rates being quoted for CastingWords definitely indicate either India or an even cheaper country. (42 c/minute = $25.2 per hour of audio.) 1 hour of audio takes between 4 and 6 hours to transcribe depending on complexity. There aren’t too many domestic transcribers who will work for between $4.20 and $6.30 per hour.
Check out our site at http://www.productiontranscripts.com.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
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January 28th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Hi Everybody,
We run a popular Podcast Directory and have offered Podcast Transcription services for about a year now!
We offer a host of other services also. We specialize in helping podcasters place higher in the SERPS (Search Engines!) and generating more listeners!
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Thanks,
Michael Valiant
June 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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