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Internet Transcription - Breaking Into a New Age of Transcription Services
By Jeff Noctis · 11 years ago
Transcription services have been around since the early days of recorded audio, but have only recently begun to change. Where professionals once had to physically deliver recorded audio to a transcription company, internet transcription makes ...
Cassette Tape Repair
By Jeff Noctis · 11 years ago
If you come from the generation that inevitably had a cassette tape Walkman clipped to their belt, then you know all too well that audio cassettes enjoyed more than 30 years or so as a ...
Digital Compact Cassettes – Only Four Years of Life
By Jeff Noctis · 11 years ago
The 90's saw the development of a number of new audio formats. There were competing companies that wanted their new ways of listening to music to prevail. The early 90s saw the introduction of the ...
Digital Audio File Formats - Lossy Vs. Lossless
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
We've come a long way from toting around cases of cassette tapes for our vehicles. While there's part of us that never wants to let go of that mix tape, or that Van Halen or ...
Saving History with Audio Transfer and Conversion
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
It's almost become an uphill battle to keep up with audio technology. It wasn't long ago we thought being able to walk around with a portable Discman was as good as it could get but ...
The Ins and Outs of Legal Translation
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
What is a Legal Translation? A legal translation is any translation that falls under the purview of the judicial system. There are many types of documents that are required by the civil and criminal justice ...
The Great Format War - DVD-A Vs SACD
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
The consumer is being faced with the most difficult decision with regard to consumer electronics since the days of VHS vs Betamax. A person would spend hard earned money on one fearing that their choice ...
Intelligence and Audio Surveillance in the United States
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
The federal government of the United States of America has a rather thorough intelligence machine at its disposal. The various organizations are collectively called the IC (Intelligence Community). The IC itself is led by the ...
An Introduction to Digital Audio Tape - or DAT
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
DAT - What is it? Digital Audio Tape (DAT) was an audio recording and playback medium developed by Sony - introduced in 1987 - and was intended to be the successor to the audio cassette. ...
Translation and Interpretation for Cross Border Investigations and Trials
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
It doesn't matter where you go - be it Michigan or Mexico - you will find people who don't always speak the same language. Whether it's a tourist or an immigrant worker who finds himself ...
Transcribing the Family Legacy
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
Memories Forgotten but Not Lost There is nothing that can solidify a family quite like its history and heritage. Not everyone has the benefit of a known family history or legacy. It is fairly safe ...
The Importance of Spanish Business Translation
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
Spanish Speaking Employees in the U.S. There are millions of legal immigrant workers in the United States and there has been a rising curve in the numbers of citizens from Mexico coming to the United ...
Answering Services - Making History One Call at a Time
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
Defining the Answering Service Telephone Answering services historically focused on taking messages for clients outside of normal business hours. These services would have a live person answer calls transferred from the clients' phone line to ...
The Benefit of Certified Transcription and Translation
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
What is a Certified Transcript or translation? A certified and notarized transcript (or translation) is one that has been declared and sworn to be accurate by the agency or transcriptionist/translator who did the work. This ...
Voicemail as Legal Evidence
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
The Patriot Act Any organization or company can be compelled to surrender customer identifying information for a variety of reasons and an assortment of procedures. With The Patriot Act it is now even more encompassing, ...
Telephone Interpreting - Tearing Down Language Barriers
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
What is Interpretation? Interpretation is the transmission of an oral message from one language to another. In many cases interpretation requires there to be an interpreter on location as two or more individuals of various ...
Tips for Choosing a Forensic Transcription Provider
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
There are a variety of companies out there claiming to offer forensic transcription and if you don't know much about it, it makes it difficult to determine the likely quality of each service provider. First ...
Speech Transcription - Hanging on Every Word
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
As long as people have had something interesting to say there's been a need to document it in some form. Writing started with cave paintings and has since advanced to more modern forms. Transcription is ...
Tips on Working with a Telephone Interpreting Service
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
A telephone interpreting service often fields a large number of calls and requests daily and each of these calls requires a great deal of attention. When you work with an interpreter over the phone there ...
Why AT&T Tried to Kill the Answering Machine
By Jeff Noctis · 12 years ago
If you follow the history of the answering machine it spans more than 100 years with a variety of formats and recording media. The process began in the late 1800's with Valdemar Pouisen who invented ...