What Do You Do?

24. August 2007 by Tara.

“I’m a professional transcriptionist.”

“Oh yeah! One of my friends does medical transcription. She works for a local doctor.”

Well, we do everything but medical! Even when someone connects my job with medical transcription, they still seem to have a hard time grasping the concept of a transcript. It’s like a play script, where each person’s part is labeled by their character name and is written exactly how it should be spoken.

An interview transcript might start like this:

George:  Thank you for joining me for this interview.

Martha:  It’s my pleasure, George. I appreciate your invitation.

Then George and Martha go on with the interview with him asking questions and her answering them. It’s really that simple, but some aspects can be very complicated. What are they? Find out in my next post…

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