Though it may not seem like it, there’s a lot of the Internet that people don’t understand. We don’t mean in terms of confusing apps or content in other languages; today, we’re talking about web accessibility.
In 2018, the Department of Justice is due to announce new guidelines for web accessibility. When that happens, the rules for what websites need to do to ensure accessibility will be official…not to mention potentially enforceable.…
Ordering transcription services from CastingWords is generally a very simple process, but as with any online transaction, there are a few questions that could arise. Here are the answers to some of them:
I uploaded my files, but now my cart is empty! If you close, refresh, or navigate away from the order form before you have gone through checkout (paid for the order), you may lose access to your shopping cart and its contents.…
When you think of the different ways we preserve memories, what methods come to mind? Photographs? Newspaper articles? Possibly home movies?
In the age of digital preservation, there are several moving parts to consider when it comes to preserving family history. Mainly: In what ways are your memories, and the media that hold them, vulnerable to the passage of time?
For many digital and analog formats, time is the biggest enemy.…
Here at CastingWords, we want to provide a text counterpart for every type of audio and video recording our customers can produce. We provide reliable transcription services to our customers so they can keep focusing on what matters to them; their own businesses and lives.
A good percentage of our customers come to us with occasional projects, ordering one or two transcripts here and there. But some businesses come back time and time again, relying on our help with large quantities of material and recurring projects.…
The Difficult Audio upgrade is an optional upgrade when you order transcription services. How do you know when to add it, and why should you use it at all?
What the Difficult Audio upgrade does CastingWords uses the additional fee from the Difficult Audio upgrade to increase the pay to our workers who handle your material at every stage of processing.
Adding the upgrade does not reinstate the guarantee on our 1-Week or 1-Day products (challenging material does still take longer to process), but it assures the smoothest possible turnaround in any given case – often to within the desired timeframe.…
Should your transcript be verbatim? It sounds like something you’d want, right? Your transcript should be true to the recording, after all!
At CastingWords, our standard transcripts are not fully verbatim, but you can add the Verbatim upgrade if desired. Here’s why:
Non-Verbatim for Smooth Reading In most cases, a recording is transcribed for the benefit of a reader, and spoken text does not always translate smoothly into writing. Our speech is often full of ums and uhs, we sprinkle in filler words such as “like” and “sort of,” we stop mid-sentence and start again.…
Our last post discussed the difference between our Timestamps upgrade and our Subtitles & Captions upgrade, and what you get with each.
We explained that, on our end, Subtitles & Captions are all one product; you order the upgrade, and we give you the whole range of subtitle and caption formats so you can download whichever one you need.
But what, in fact, is the difference between subtitles and captions? Once you have all those downloadable files, which do you choose?…
What’s the difference between subtitles and captions? What about timestamps? Do I need any of them? Help!
When you order a transcript from CastingWords, there are several optional upgrades you may choose to apply. Today we’re going to look at two of them: Timestamps, and Subtitles/Captions.
What are Timestamps?
Timestamping is the simpler of the two upgrades, since it doesn’t involve any additional file formats.
When you order timestamps, your audio is transcribed and edited by humans as usual.…
As of September 2017, YouTube is the second most visited website on the Internet, worldwide. That means there are a staggering number of users watching videos, which represents a fantastic opportunity for anyone trying to get in front of potential customers!
Once you create a video and upload it to your channel, how do you optimize it to rank higher in search results? CastingWords has some tricks that can help boost your video’s ranking in both YouTube and search engine results.…
Getting your website ranked higher on search engines is a great way to grow your podcast audience. Two of the major elements in SEO (search engine optimization) are fresh posts, and high quality content.
You’re already doing the work of producing unique, high-quality podcast episodes. Transcribing them provides you with a tremendous amount of material that you can use to create high quality written content that will drive even more traffic to your site.…