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Audio and video media are rapidly becoming commonplace in online business environments everywhere, simply because it’s much easier to record information this way for later use. A large number of these businesses will then need the services of an expert virtual assistant to turn all the recorded media into print.
Medical professionals are used to using Dictaphone and other dictating services and this method has been in place for some time now. Often times, doctors later have their notes transcribed for patient and hospital records. In the legal world, similar transcriptions take place. It’s just simply more convenient to use a recording device and then later create a detailed written copy.
Online businesses are turning in increasing number to the use of audio and video to market their products. Tutorials, how-to-guides and interviews are uploaded to websites for viewing and listening. But, for whatever reason, we all know that sometimes you just can’t always understand what is being said. In such an instance, there could be a need for a transcribed record of the recording.
In the case of video and audio, it is possible to translate material into other languages and thus distribute marketing efforts on a more global scale. This could be of great interest to business owners, but because they do not know how to do this or are simply strapped for time, they often do not take the time to translate or transcribe. These individuals need the help of a professional, someone like a virtual assistant who is well versed in the art of transcription and translation.
It is not as easy as you might think to transcribe recordings. You can save your clients a lot of time-consuming work as a virtual assistant transcriptionist. You will have prescription software available to you, enabling you to deal with all kinds of recordings that your clients come up with and you can select from a variety of formats for the final copy.
Some of these services can include:
• Medical Transcription
• Legal transcription
• Transcription for video
• Transcription for podcasts
• Transcription Translation
• Audio Transcription – for business meetings
Clients have the option of emailing their work to you as audio or video files according to what file extensions you accept. In certain cases, they may wish to mail you tapes or CDs for less than urgent jobs. They may have particular needs and could ask you to either provide a cleaned up transcription with corrected grammar or a verbatim transcription.
For the virtual assistant transcriptionist who is also fluent in another language – or languages, you can offer translation services to your clients as well. The clients themselves will have additional opportunities to expand their own customer base by producing material for non-English speaking customers. Each area of transcription can become a sub-niche if you want to specialise further. If you just specialise in the legal or medical areas alone, you can turn transcription into a lucrative business if you focus on your areas of expertise.
Transcription services are certainly one area that a virtual assistant can specialise in, however generally this is a long term business goal, as establishing a client base usually takes some time. As alternative forms of media along with advanced website development strategies become more popular marketing tools for online businesses, those clients will need the skills of a transcriptionist and sometimes a translator to help them develop and expand.
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