Payment defaulters in the field of audio transcription. Why is it important to pay your transcription service?
The above picture represents stress, it could be stress from work, stress from not getting paid for that work or a number of other factors which come along with the job of audio transcription. Not paying for the service has been a very common problem with many online transcription services lately, which they have outlined on their websites as well. Of course, nobody likes to let go of a client, but what to do if the client doesn’t pay up? I guess these defaulters think the work doesn’t deserve their money, and so they take the finished transcript, and then disappear. Comes pretty close to stealing, doesn’t it?
Let me tell you why it’s important to pay your transcription service provider, be it anyone, not just our company, because this job requires much more hard work than many other jobs, and just because it’s not carried out through a brick-and-mortar store, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t pay for it. How would you feel if you weren’t paid at all for your hard work? Here’s why it’s so important.
The process of converting voice to text is not as easy as it seems. A typical one hour audio file takes anywhere between 8 to 9 hours to transcribe by a single transcriber, and then takes another 4 or 5 hours for a proofreader to iron out any mistakes the transcriber or transcribers may have made, correct it grammatically, and give the transcript a clean and concise look, getting it close to 100% accuracy. This becomes even more tough if the audio quality is anything below good, that means background noise, chatter, static noise, crosstalk, and so it’s then more akin to finding gold between garbage. Don’t you think this hard work deserves to be paid?
Many of our clients have been just super, even offering to pay beforehand, even before the transcript was finished, but we’ve always been fair and asked for the payment after we sent the transcript to the client. But then there are always the one or two which make the whole experience sour by not paying, and completely disappearing from the radar. Things like these prompt transcription companies to sue these clients or go to a debt recovery agency to get their money, and also take precautionary measures like ask for the payment upfront from all new clients. ScriptoSphere urges you to save the online transcription business, pay for a service you requested for, a service which you received, and so it deserves to be paid rightfully.
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