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Thanks Adam. I started looking into transcription services. The issue is cost and audio quality so far. The going rate appears to be $1/min. So the avg Talentopoly episode would weigh in at $80. Plus a lot of the text would most likely be wrong due to the poor quality of Skype. But I'll keep searching. If you know of any good services that are free or inexpensive let me know.

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On Odesk, people are offering $5-10 per hour of audio:

  https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/browse/c/administrative-support/sc/transcription/

It might be worth trying.

As someone who runs a crowdsourced transcription company I can tell you it's not worth it. If it was we'd be hiring them, and the going rate would be $7/hour not $60. You'd get better quality with machine transcription - and that's really not saying much.

I'm confused. Is your crowd-sourced transcription service free? Or are you charging a nominal fee and having the crowd do it for free?

What are some good machine translation sites?

That's interesting. Though I wonder what the quality of the output is. They are no doubt foreigners at that price and will have the language barrier and Skype call quality to contend with.

How about getting the community to help? I could ask around - or you could set up a fund to pay for the transcript costs - I'll probably commit $20-30 to it.

I like the community idea. So do you mean just doing a summary at that point? Or do you want an entire transcript?

Doing a summary would be obviously much better than than nothing but a full transcript would be great.

I'll do it for $0.50 a minute ;)

Hilarious

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