Different mediums for recording information are becoming available within the online business arena, essentially because it is a whole lot easier to record the information through audio and video for access later. Once this information has been recorded thus, a number of these businesses will need to employ an expert virtual assistant to convert the information into print.

A significant percentage of medical professionals have been using Dictaphone and dictating services for a long time. Doctors often transcribe notes later for patient access and hospital records. In the legal world, similar transcriptions take place. It’s just simply more convenient to use a recording device and then later create a detailed written copy.

Online businesses have found extremely effective ways to market their products with audio and video. Tutorials, how-to-guides and interviews are uploaded to websites for viewing and listening. But, for whatever reason, we all know that sometimes you just can’t always understand what is being said. In these cases, the transcribed records of the recording could be very valuable for those interested.

Just like movies, audio and video can be translated into other languages to increase the results from overall marketing efforts. This could be of great interest to business owners, but because they do not know how to do this or are simply strapped for time, they often do not take the time to translate or transcribe. Business owners in this situation need to employ the help of a professional, a virtual assistant for example, who knows how to translate and transcribe for them.

Transcribing recordings is not nearly as easy as you might initially think. You can save your clients a lot of time-consuming work as a virtual assistant transcriptionist. Through using your transcription software, you will be able to handle all sorts of recordings for your clients, using the format that they choose for the final copy.

Some of these services can include:

• Medical transcription
• Legal transcription
• Transcription for video
• Podcast Transcription
• Transcription translation
• Audio Transcription – for business meetings

Clients have the option of emailing their work to you as audio or video files according to what file extensions you accept. In certain cases, they may wish to mail you tapes or CDs for less than urgent jobs. They may have particular needs and could ask you to either provide a cleaned up transcription with corrected grammar or a verbatim transcription.

For the virtual assistant transcriptionist who is also fluent in another language – or languages, you can offer translation services to your clients as well. The clients themselves will have additional opportunities to expand their own customer base by producing material for non-English speaking customers. Now you can see how you can develop some sub-niches to specialise more. Medical or legal transcription alone can turn into a lucrative business if you really apply yourself to this area of expertise.

Transcription services can definitely prove lucrative for a virtual assistant, although on average this may take a long time to set up and consequently it may take time to set up your client base. As more and more online businesses pursue website development and use other media as marketing tools, they will need the skill of a transcriptionist and even a translator for their work.

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