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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, corp

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).”