Moving with the times – how shorthand has been replaced within the digital world

How FSTL has embraced the change for transcription.  Shorthand has quite some history, but is something that leaves most of us “lay people” quite baffled!   It’s been around for about 2,000 years, in various shapes and forms, purely to make note taking much quicker than writing out the full words. The earliest example of shorthand was found in the Parthenon in …

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Should you use transcription in YouTube videos?

Is it really necessary?   In a word – yes!   While YouTube is clearly a visual phenomenon, there are definitely a huge number of instances across a wide range of industries where transcription of the video is very useful. And the same applies vice versa – providing audio files for blogs or other online written content can be hugely …

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