Anyone here ever looked into part time transcription work?

Probably won't get paid much

Are you referring to transcribing in the medical field?

Yea medical is the only transcription work I know about, and I was going to suggest a heavy knowledge of medical terminology. I know it paid well, but like everything it has its pros & cons.

You should try to get work typing up the closed captions for adult movies. That would be a plum gig.

Medical transcription is a dying industry. Docs these days check the boxes and type in their brief synopsis on their own terminals.

The only transcription still being done in any volume is legal. You'd have to work behind the scenes for a certified court reporter who would sign their name to the transcript and certify it as their own. I'm not sure of the ethical implications of that.

Many years ago when I was in college I worked one summer for a friend of mine who was a court reporter in the federal courts. He had an extremely complex and lengthy case involving money laundering, several months worth of testimony. He farmed some of it out to me and paid me by the page. I can tell you that it was very demanding work transcribing from audio tape, keeping all of the speakers straight and dealing with indistinct or mumbled speech. It required frequent cross-reference to the shorthand tape to get it right and the only one who can fully read a shorthand tape is the one who created it. In other words, you need to do the work under close supervision from the court reporter so working from home would pretty much be out of the question.

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