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Speak Write - AW

Posted: Jul 30, 2010

Has anyone heard of or worked for Speak Write?

Yes, I have heard of them - Typin_away

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They are a pretty well-known General or Legal transcription company. Pay is 1/2 cent per word. I have never come across any issues with pay issues with them.

I do not work for them personally so I do not know what the work load is like but with all general transcription files you are doing multispeaker which eats up more time with all the formatting involved.

Speak-Write - Tara

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I used to work for them. Good company to work for, however, the above poster is wrong. In fact, any voice files that you receive that are more than one speaker, you have to turn it back in. Only editors get those jobs. They do general transcription, but a lot of what I typed was social services type work, business letters, surveillance reports, etc. Pay was always on time. They have a schedule that you are in control of. You can schedule yourself for an hour here or there and before I left there was talk of scheduling by the half hour so that you could pick up a half hour shift when you had time. Lots and lots of rules though to learn.

Thank you for the correction Tara - Typin_away

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I was not aware that they did single speaker files. I have not worked for them but I have heard good things about them on the general transcription boards elsewhere.

General transcription board? - sm

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I have been searching for some info on general transcription (other than the "anyone can do it, it's easy, you can make money fast!" propaganda out there).

I haven't found any boards for GT, are there any you might recommend? or any informative websites? Thanks.

Try the Transcription Essentials Board... - Ginger

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I'm not sure if you're allowed to post links, but if you do a search, you'll find TE. You'll find out everything you ever wanted to know about general transcription.

correction - Tara

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You are welcome and yes they are a great company to work for. It's just hard to make decent money.

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