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2012-02-17T08:39:00.000-08:00

Trunk Spotlight: Quicktate for Transcribing Your Audio Notes and Making Them Searchable in Evernote

| Posted by Kasey Fleisher Hickey in Friends and Partners

App: Quicktate
Platform: Any
Price: Monthly and Pay As You Go Plans available
Type: Transcription

For those of you who use Evernote’s audio feature to record notes, you’ll find today’s Trunk Spotlight to be very exciting. Quicktate can actually turn lengthy voice notes into text that you can easily search for and access anywhere you have Evernote installed.

An introduction to Quicktate

Unlike some transcription services, Quicktate does not use voice recognition technology but rather, employs its own team of pre-screened professionals that transcribe voice recordings. Because your audio notes are transcribed by a real human being, the accuracy of the transcription is remarkably high, and the turnaround is surprisingly quick.
Quicktate transcribes both long and short voice notes. A 60 minute voice note recorded in Evernote can be transcribed in about 4-6 hours. This means that if you attended a meeting in the morning and recorded it using the audio feature in Evernote, you’d get the transcription before the end of the day. A 30 second voice note can be transcribed in minutes.

How it works

To start using Quicktate, first create an account. As part of setting up your account, you’ll be asked to authorize Quicktate to access your Evernote account. After you’ve linked your accounts, anytime you create an audio recording in Evernote, the recording will be sent to Quicktate for transcription, and the transcribed text will go straight back into the original note in your Evernote account.
You can record an audio note in every version of Evernote. But if you’re on the go, you can also call (888) 222-NOTE and dictate your recording to Quicktate. They’ll transcribe your recording and create a new note in your Evernote account containing the results).

Why would I want to transcribe long-form audio?
There are plenty of reasons why you’d want to record and then transcribe a long audio note. Here are a few ideas:

To capture and search everything discussed at a business meeting. There’s no better way to know what each person said at a meeting than to record and transcribe the entire meeting.
To capture speeches and lectures. Whether you’re attending a class, or a conference, you can record a speaker and forget about having to feverishly take notes.
To write your book. Ok, you might not be an author, but if you are writing a book, blog post, or article, you might want to speak some (or all) parts of it to capture nuanced dialogue and emotion.
To record an important event. Whether you need to capture the scene of a car accident, or a business deal, dictating the events happening around you might be the easiest way to capture them. Transcribing these notes might be the easiest way to find and remember them later.

Quicktate Creates Special Promotion for Jott Subscribers

2011-04-29T16:16:00.000-07:00

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Apr 29, 2011) - With the pending shutdown of Nuance's "Jott" service, Quicktate has announced a special promotion for all Jott subscribers.

Starting today and continuing through June 30, any Jott subscriber that signs up with Quicktate will receive an instant $20 credit to their account.

According to CEO Lee Dorfman, "Quicktate has no monthly charges and all transcription is billed by the word. Regular transcription is billed at just 1 1/4 cents per word and customers may dictate both long and short files."

Quicktate offers three types of transcription: General, Legal, and (HIPAA compliant) Medical. Users dial (888) 222-NOTE to dictate a myriad of documents such as personal notes, reminders, emails, letters, inspection reports and patient notes. Finished transcripts may be retrieved by email or by logging in to the user's account. In addition, users may opt to have their transcripts automatically submitted to Evernote to enable key word searching.

Jott subscribers may take advantage of this offer by signing up at http://quicktate.com, and entering promo code JOTT.

About Quicktate

Quicktate provides high quality speech transcription, which easily integrates into existing services using a flexible API. Current applications include call auditing, transcribing voicemail messages, conference calls, iPhone and BlackBerry voice recordings, and medical and legal dictations.

Popular projects include TweetCall (http://tweetcall.com), a service which allows users to dial (877)Tweet-Call and speak their tweets which are then transcribed and automatically published to Twitter, and CallTroops (http://CallTroops.US) (800) Do-Call-Troops, a free service that delivers transcribed messages to US servicemen and women serving abroad.

Quicktate and its sister company iDictate (http://idictate.com) provide transcription service to customers on 5 continents.

Quicktate and iDictate are based in San Francisco, California.

We are very happy with the service, and highly recommend Idictate.com

2010-12-30T09:18:00.000-08:00

For several years we have been working with the same provider to transcribe our depositions, case notes, interviews and field reports. In early 2010, we decided to evaluate our options. After discovering Idictate, we liked what we heard and decided to test their service.

After testing for a few months we polled our attorneys and field investigators, we found that the responses were all extremely positive and more. The turn-around time to get the files back was far more impressive than we had expected and were used to.

Although we normally opt for their "standard" delivery, their "rush" service returns files quite quickly. (Many of our files are rather large). In addition, the accuracy of the transcripts has been perfect.

Based on these internal comments, we made the decision to have Idictate transcribe all of our files across all of our offices.

Lastly, I have found their customer support to be extremely responsive to our needs and requests. And it probably wouldn't hurt to add that the change to Idictate is saving us a lot of money as well.

I could go on and on, but let me close by saying that we are very happy with the service, and highly recommend Idictate.

JM

I now use and recommend iDictate for all my transcription needs.

2010-12-01T11:27:00.000-08:00

I recently completed a 30 hour Mobile marketing webinar series for a large marketing association. They had promised their members transcripts of every word I spoke during these live trainings. I assumed this association had a good transcription service at-hand and agreed to proof the transcripts when done. OMG! Upon receiving the files I found myself in proofing-hell; one of every 10 transcribed words was unrecognizable... for crying out loud, if anyone read this transcript, they'd think English was my second or third language; even my name was misspelled.

I quickly convinced this client to switch to iDictate. In short order this massive transcription project was delivered almost flawless... even my Uhms and Ahs were removed. I now use and recommend iDictate for all my transcription needs.

Dan Hollings
Internet & Mobile Marketing Strategist

iDictate Offers Half-Hour Service

2010-11-27T13:54:00.000-08:00

iDictate Offers "Super-Rush" 30 Minute Transcription Service
iDictate (http://idictate.com) has announced that it will offer 30 minute transcription service to its customers.

According to CEO Lee Dorfman, "If the user selects Super-Rush service, the transcript will be billed at a significant premium. In addition, there are a lot of restrictions with the Super-Rush program. Super-Rush is only for situations where the user cannot wait for his or her finished file.

"Super-Rush files are billed at the rate of $0.05 (five cents) per word, but only if we complete the file within 30 minutes from the time we receive it. If we fail to deliver a qualifying Super-Rush file to the customer within 30 minutes, they will not be billed the Super-Rush rate but instead will be billed the normal Rush fee."

In order to qualify for Super-Rush delivery:
(a) your file must not exceed 1,000 (one thousand) words (which is approximately 8 minutes of audio)
(b) the audio must be single speaker
(c) the content must be either "General" or "Legal" (not medical)
(d) the audio must be in English, clearly spoken and without an accent
(e) your file must be uploaded to iDictate (as opposed to submitted by phone)
(f) hand-written notes do not qualify

Currently, the Super-Rush service is not available for files dictated by phone.
iDictate will continue to provide its "Regular" and "Rush" service.

About iDictate
iDictate was founded in 1999 and maintains an international client base spanning 4 continents. Voice recordings can be delivered to iDictate via phone (877-DICTATE), web upload, iPhone, and Blackberry.

Contact:
iDictate.
Lee Dorfman, 866-367-5000
ljd@idictate.com