1) Listening : Listening the audio.
2) Typing : Typing out what you have listened to.
3) Research : Researching what you have typed is right.
The most basic of which is Typing.
* Why?
The ideal TAT (Turnaround Time) for a transcriber to churn out a reasonable quality script for a one minute audio is about six minutes, and that for an editor to check it is four minutes. These minutes are divided then for doing the three basic things, (LISTENING, TYPING, and RESEARCH) and each has its own importance. But if you type faster, then you could devote more time to listen and do research as simple as that. Secondly, typing is easy to learn.
Keyboard: A Keyboard is an input device, which uses an arrangement of keys, which act as electrical switches and each press of a key typically corresponds to a single written symbol. This is the basic tool used for typing. In normal usage, the keyboard is used to type text and numbers into a word processor, text editor, or other programs. The interpretation of key presses is generally left to the software.
This is how a keyboard looks like:
Now it is curious why the keyboard has keys in such a peculiar set up, not the usual ABC... but QWERTY etc… Let’s learn why?
QWERTY keyboard: This is the most used modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six characters seen in the far left of the keyboard’s top row of letters. This design was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1874 and sold to Remington in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters.
It’s layout arranges keys so that frequently used keys are easiest to press, which reduces muscle fatigue when typing common English. Simple, yet effective.
To learn about ways in which typing is done click here.
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