Freelance writer Mike Whybark has been reading my blog entries about transcribing interviews, and he let me know about a couple of web-based human transcription services. He wrote about it in a blog entry.
On opening the file, I was overjoyed. While the iDictate files were quick-and-dirty, costing (I thought) a penny a word, and yielding about 5,000 words per half hour, the escriptionist file was meticulous, beautifully formatted, and scrupulously accurate. It was also 7000 words long, rendering the per word cost considerably less than 1 penny.
I tried iDicate last night on a 2,700 word MP3 interview and was very happy with the results. They turned it around in a matter of hours and the copy was very clean. A penny a word is a great deal. Link
