Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Words

Words

coalescing
clamoring
buttress
endows
panacea
facsimile
esoteric
traverse
alacrity
perturbation
burgeoning
asymptotic
axiomatic
rhetoric
soliloquy
acclimated
umpteen
bashful
debacle
frothiness
ensemble
mundane
perturbation
factoid
percolating
behooved
idiosyncratic
plateaued
adeptly
notoriety
non sequitur
erroneous
postprandial
draconian
juxtapose
hiatus
soothsayer
prescience
mastheads
panacea
insofar
succumbed
precipice
antsy
aghast
skirmishes
piqued
hedonistic
tell-tale
squeamish
bellwether
quasi
brouhaha
scalpel
belabor
vagaries
snafu
tantalize
fervent
eschewed
pet peeve
gentrification
intermittently
colossal
innuendo
spigot
tantalize
ameliorate
doggone
definitely
fait accompli
juggernaut
trite
jettisoning 
cajoled
behoove
swashbuckling
fungible
pontificate
pompous 
emboldened
cachet
cache
hoister
smidgen
asymptote
abysmal
mega capping
Litmus test

Idioms


pry them loose
Once bitten, twice shy
cookie-cutter approach
harm's way
lo and behold
tongue-in-cheek
nickel-and-dime
skin in the game
more the merrier
neither fish nor fowl
slicing the salami
odds and ends


You can find the meaning on Wordweb.

Please help me keying in more works.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Business Transcription



Business Transcription is one of the services under Information Technology Enabled Services. Let me start from the roots. Transcription is a process where a voice or speech is converted into a written format, for example, a PDF or a word document.

Transcription is vastly known in the field of medicine, where patient records are documented electronically. Same way, business, legal and interview transcriptions are some of the other kinds of transcription oriented processes.

Business Transcription is a process that produces verbatim transcripts of earnings calls, sales calls, product releases, acquisition and merger etc. of public limited companies registered under stock exchanges like NASDAQ , NYSE, AMEX etc.

To comply with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) rules, Publicly Listed Companies hold quarterly conference calls to publish thier results to the shareholders, investors, analysts and market professionals, etc. Transcripts help many dot-com users, mainly the company covered, research analysts, individual and large research firms. It is mandatory in most countries that a copy of the transcript is to be filed with the governing board.

The Process

Recording

The process of Business Transcription begins from recording the live earnings conference call. Most companies pre-schedule a webcast event for the earnings release, where the whole or a conference partial is streamed over the internet. The streaming audio is recorded live with the help of recording software. The audio of the live recording is simultaneously split into intervals of two/three minutes for the ease of processing.

Transcribing

The splits of two minutes are then transcribed by trained Transcribers, who will take up to 10 to 12 minutes to transcribe each split. The transcribed files are then edited by an Editor, who will check for errors in the file; this process is done in 2.5 to 5 minutes. After editing, the content of the split documents are then compiled to make it one single document with necessary formatting. The industry standard Turn-Around-Time for transcribing, editing, compiling, formatting etc, in total, takes three to six hours for one hour of audio on average.

Quality Check

Then comes the QA/QC; QA will proofread the whole or partial transcript and corrects if necessary and forwards for publishing. The corrected transcript is then formatted and published on dot-com sites. The transcript once published on dot-com is available for readers/analysts/companies and others on paid purchase or on-demand or in some cases for free, depending on the priority.

Pricing

For transcription service, various individuals and organizations have different rates and methods of pricing. Transcripts are charged on line count or word count or on duration basis, which differs from each vendor. Transcription companies primarily serve to large research firms.

Live transcripts are processed on a timely basis, so transcripts maybe near perfect only.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Virtual friendship, do you believe it?




21st century is totally digital, everything has an imaginary version. Virtual friendship is not an impossible thing, but I just think of it when I communicated with several e-frenz and in through chat and we actually become frenz. When chatting online however, people are more willing to tell more about themselves. Maybe the Internet is a good place to make good frenz and to know more about them. Sometimes, trust is just a difficult thing in the virtual world. So eventually, the question is "do you believe virtual friendship?"