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I’m sorry your family member lost their job, that’s always rough. That being said, the field of transcription is nowhere near dead. Bighand does transcription a

by nikanj 4y ago

I’m sorry your family member lost their job, that’s always rough. That being said, the field of transcription is nowhere near dead. Bighand does transcription and dictation solutions and their annual revenue is over 70 million.

klyrs 4y ago
Do they employ humans to do the transcription? A look at their jobs page has zero such openings. This points to consolidation of an entire industry into the pockets of a small number of individuals. That's no comfort to the legions of recently-unemployed.
- nikanj 4y ago
  The legal offices employ humans, Bighand provides tools to enable said work. If there was no transcription happening, dictation tools would not be selling for tens of millions per year
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  - PeterisP 4y ago
    One thing we've seen for transcriptions in medical field (which may also be relevant in legal and others) is a need for a qualified specialist (i.e. the doctor who dictated the thing or did the patient interview) to review and sign-off the final transcription. Currently a transcriptionist does the bulk of the work, and the doctor reviews it; however, with better tools, the doctor would just use the dictation tool directly and review the automated output directly, cutting the 'transcription office' out entirely.
BobbyJo 4y ago
I think they meant the job doing transcription is dead, not that corporations don't provide the service anymore. In keeping with the topic, AI taking jobs, corporations are mostly using digital tooling rather than people to do transcription.
- nikanj 4y ago
  I think that’s what they mean, but they are wrong. Ask any large legal firm in the UK if they’ve gotten rid of all transcriptionists, I’ll buy you a pint if they say yes
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    That's a better question to ask in a year or two.
    - nikanj 4y ago
      Parent claimed that ”the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).”, and that's patently false - the field still definitely exists and plenty of people work in transcription. People have been predicting speech recognition replacing human secretaries since the 1950s, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
  - falcolas 4y ago
    Might be worth asking if they’ve gotten rid of any, or some such jobs. You don’t have to get rid of all jobs in a field for it to have major impacts.
    - nikanj 4y ago
      But the claim wasn't "some jobs have been eliminated", it was ”the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).”

by nikanj 4y ago

klyrs 4y ago

Do they employ humans to do the transcription? A look at their jobs page has zero such openings. This points to consolidation of an entire industry into the pockets of a small number of individuals. That's no comfort to the legions of recently-unemployed.

nikanj 4y ago
The legal offices employ humans, Bighand provides tools to enable said work. If there was no transcription happening, dictation tools would not be selling for tens of millions per year
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- PeterisP 4y ago
  One thing we've seen for transcriptions in medical field (which may also be relevant in legal and others) is a need for a qualified specialist (i.e. the doctor who dictated the thing or did the patient interview) to review and sign-off the final transcription. Currently a transcriptionist does the bulk of the work, and the doctor reviews it; however, with better tools, the doctor would just use the dictation tool directly and review the automated output directly, cutting the 'transcription office' out entirely.

BobbyJo 4y ago

I think they meant the job doing transcription is dead, not that corporations don't provide the service anymore. In keeping with the topic, AI taking jobs, corporations are mostly using digital tooling rather than people to do transcription.

nikanj 4y ago
I think that’s what they mean, but they are wrong. Ask any large legal firm in the UK if they’ve gotten rid of all transcriptionists, I’ll buy you a pint if they say yes
- JohnFen 4y ago
  That's a better question to ask in a year or two.
  - nikanj 4y ago
    Parent claimed that ”the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).”, and that's patently false - the field still definitely exists and plenty of people work in transcription. People have been predicting speech recognition replacing human secretaries since the 1950s, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
- falcolas 4y ago
  Might be worth asking if they’ve gotten rid of any, or some such jobs. You don’t have to get rid of all jobs in a field for it to have major impacts.
  - nikanj 4y ago
    But the claim wasn't "some jobs have been eliminated", it was ”the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).”