Transcription Service for Robot Videos

EDIT: This transcription service is on hiatus until further notice.

Do you have a demonstration video or tutorial video about robotics or productivity software, and you need a transcription for it? How about for a robotics-centered podcast? Or a half-hour long presentation on your robotics project?

With a transcription for your video, you could reach more visitors, readers or customers for your website or company. Some people may just want to read it first to familiarize themselves with the order of events, topics, or terminology. If they watch the video or listen to the audio first, they can download the transcript for future reference. 

If they’d like to, they could watch the video or listen to the audio, having the prior knowledge of the events, topic or product. They may even be more likely to buy, subscribe, or download.

Productivity software (such as those for writing, or writers) is my primary niche, but I’d also like to be involved with robotics in the best way that I can—with writing and transcription being the top two ways that I can.

I happen to offer transcription services on Fiverr.

Question 1: What exactly do I do there?

On Fiverr I provide a transcription service focused on the technology areas of robots and helpful PC software and mobile apps.

I love robots and I’m fascinated with robotics, especially humanoid robotics and social robotics. How about discussions on robot ethics? Yes, that too. Wouldn’t you want someone like this to work with you?

You want someone who is both interested in the subject, skilled in typing, and pleased to help rather than just doing it only for the money.

You want someone who comes alive doing work related to what their interests are. When you choose a specialist, you will get the benefit of that person’s energy and excitement, eager to participate and serve.

Image created by Amethyst Anne, April 17, 2016. (Note: DreamTypistSW is my Fiverr username.)

Question 2: Is this something you, or someone you know, might be interested in?

Think—a transcription for your podcast episode discussing robot ethics would make your material easier to read and review. Or, maybe you’d like a transcription for a tutorial of your new app. Maybe, you want the transcript to be easy to read and follow along with the video or audio content.

I like to help other people get the most out of things. And in this case, helping your listeners, viewers or readers get the most out of your podcast and website, or any other online site, is something I’d be very excited about doing for you.

Don’t just take my word for it on what I can do for you. Try my transcription service out yourself. Let me transcribe something for you, and you never know... it may expand your readership and your visitors' appreciation of transcripts as learning materials.

Question 3: Where can you learn more?

So how about it? If you’re interested in learning more, you can find this transcription service here (If you don’t have a Fiverr account, it’s very easy to create one and shouldn’t take more than a few minutes). 

My basic offer starts at $5, plus a couple of extra options you’ll find on the page. You’ll find me as DreamTypistSW (shows as “dreamtypistsw” in all lowercase).

Nothing Lasts Forever...?

I may have this gig up for a limited time. I am not sure if I’ll keep it one of my permanent services on Fiverr. However, I can’t tell the future. I cannot calculate all the probabilities like a robot might! :P  (Insert funny Perceptor or Computron reference here.)

So if you want a good deal now, then now’s the time to try out my transcription services before I remove them from Fiverr, or even before I raise rates.  This could be as long as months or as short as weeks. 

THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AND MY ATTACHEMENT TO ELECRTONIC DEVICES (PHONE AND COMPUTER)

It’s too late. I’ve named them.

I am attached to my Windows 7 PC. I am also attached to my Android smartphone.

Am I emotionally attached to them?

I can say, “yes.”

When your electronic devices help you out in so many ways, you value them like you would a friend (at least I do). I use my computer for my writing work, including personal writing projects, as well as typing for this blog and my others, plus research and some entertainment.  My Android smartphone has saved me a lot of trouble; I checked email in a pinch, the weather forecast on occasion, and even typed up some documents on it using the WPS Office Suite app for Android.

I hate to think of when I may need to replace my phone or my computer.

It’s too late. I’ve named them. I’ve named my PC and I’ve named my Android phone. Or rather, I’ve given them nicknames. And once I’ve started doing that, I refer to them in pronouns.  Not for my phone so much, but I refer to my computer as “him” and “he” whenever I mention to a family member that “He’s scheduled for his weekly scan” or “He needs to update before he shuts down for the day.”

On May 6th approximately 3:00pm, my computer experienced the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. This was first unprovoked one ever in my life (the first one was because my cat stepped on the power switch and cut off its power without warning).

I was scared for him. I was scared for my computer. Did I do something wrong? Is there a virus? What was it? Why is this happening now?

After a bit of time I realized it was because of something I did after all. While I had him on Sleep Mode and meant to return to him but didn’t, he would be in Sleep Mode for hours and hours.  For nearly a month, I’d rarely shut him off. Sometimes when he is on I have several applications open, or do three tasks within the two hours I’d be able to do research or typing. Then I’d have to put him on Sleep Mode again when I left my bedroom to take care of my new dog or eat a meal. I wanted my computer to be ready for me at a minute’s notice.

And unfortunately, this may have fried a couple of his circuits.

I took him for granted. I don’t want to do that anymore. I am now gentle to him by keeping only two applications open at once, three maximum. If I am on the Internet, I should close the applications I don’t need open at the time. And, I need to limit the number of tabs I have on my browser because that might have overwhelmed him too.

Listen to me. Saying my computer is overwhelmed. As if he gets stressed out and has feelings.

… Sigh…    (◢д◣；)     

As for my Android smartphone, I do often worry about if the apps it runs takes up enough of its RAM, and if battery power is affected by which apps are active at the time. Lately I’ve been turning my phone off less often, and maybe every 6 to 8 days I turn him off and charge the battery while he rests (there I go AGAIN, talking like I should be considerate about its fatigue). I really should schedule that every two batter charging sessions, (so every third), I need to turn the phone off and charge the battery that way. I can stand to be without my phone for a few hours.  I’d feel very naked without my phone in my pocket, though.

Wouldn’t you, though?

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So how many of you also give your devices nicknames?  It’s not a crazy thing to do, in my opinion. It can simply mean we value these devices more than make-up and designer clothes, or pairs of shoes.  Who names shoes? A device may be given a nickname because of the multiple ways it helps humans.  It may even discourage from unnecessary premature replacement.  (Here that, iPhone users?).

So give it a try.  It’s not a crazy thing to do. Others may believe it is silly to think it’s okay to refer to your phone or computer by name (as long as you don’t call your computer by its identification name!). Well, screw them. As for me, I’m just showing my high appreciation of the technology that I love. Is that so wrong?

RELY ON MOBILE DEVICES? NO $#!%, HECK YEAH!!

So life got very interesting for the last two months or so.  Along with starting to prepare for my writing career, specifically copywriting… I’ve gained a new member of the family. 

          Having a new puppy must be like having a kid; you can’t let them out of anyone’s sight for a moment or they’ll get into trouble. I can’t always be at my desktop computer because I have to be on my toes in case she needs to go out, or I need to stop her from ripping up a carpet or chewing on a shoe (yeah it happens).

          So what do I do now?

          I read and write with my mobile devices: my Android smartphone and an e-reader tablet.

          I used to look at people working or reading on their phones and think, “Hey, either they barely have time to do those things on a desktop or laptop, or they just can’t wait and they’ve gotta do it now on their mobile device.”  They read the news, check the weather or write a document or create a graph.  They may even play a video game of course (or more accurately called, mobile gaming).

          I now find myself at the point where I must use my phone and my tablet to get a lot of things done, sometimes to get ANYTHING done, because without them I can’t be in the same room with my young dog.  Granted other family members take turns watching over her—my sister otherwise watches the puppy too—so that we don’t wear ourselves out too much. The best time for me to use any device is when the puppy is sleeping. When there are a few calm minutes, that’s the best time to use my mobile devices too.

          I love typing on my Windows 7 desktop computer, as I am with writing this post, but now it’s a “sometimes” task and not an “everyday” task. These days I’m reading or writing on my tablet or my Android phone if I have to stand up and be ready at a moment’s notice.  And guess what?  I enjoy using the WPS Office app on both my phone and my tablet for typing up documents. And the cool thing is, I can share and edit the documents between either mobile device. 

Not too long of a time ago I thought, “No, I’m not going to use my tablet for professional development.  It’ is for recreation only.”

          Well, now it’s essential for productivity.  I use them for recreation half of the time and professional development the other half of the time.

          I’m spoiled now.  Both my Android smartphone and my tablet have keyboards with word prediction or auto-correct functions. Not just that but, also I can type with the “Swype” function.  My desktop?  Of course it doesn’t have any of that, and I find myself getting just a bit frustrated from the lack of convenience. 

          And that’s okay. Both desktop and mobile forms of computers have plusses and minuses to them. I may type slower on mobile devices but I type a heck of a lot faster on the desktop. I use my Android phone as an on-demand notepad now; Inkpad Notepad is my favorite note-taking app to use, but every once in a while I copy/paste some notes to WPS for a doc. version of it.  You know, to format some of the font, such as bold and italics.

          So, I still value using a desktop computer to get work done.  But now I also have two mobile devices that help me to continue getting work done.

          Do I have to rely on mobile devices?  No $#!%, heck yeah, but I love these things now!

         What are your thoughts on mobile devices and how they make your life easier? Have you owned one or more for a long time, or are you just getting started?