Silly season is almost here. Or so we hear in the media. But what does silly season mean? Where does the saying come from? And does it exist at all? Silly season was a phrase coined right here in the UK and is actually connected to the annual shut down of parliament over the summer …
The last couple of months have been exam focused for so many of our young people – whether it’s the primary school SATS, or GCSEs/A Levels or even university exams, they’ve all been in full force since May. This got us to thinking about one element of the testing process, particularly for those primary school-aged …
This week we read with interest that transcribing “illegible” exam scripts has cost university students £30,938 since 2013, representing an average cost of £144.57 per student. This article refers to the quality of transcribing hand-written documents, but it got us thinking about just how important quality is to us here at FSTL, not just in the work that we produce …
With the advances in artificial intelligence many businesses believe that turning to technology will solve all their transcription needs. But AI isn’t always the answer – for various reasons that we’ve touched on before, AI isn’t quite there yet if you need high quality, accurate transcripts. In these cases, organisations turns to the likes of …
If you’re one of the millions of people who have been hooked on “Line of Duty” Season 5 over recent weeks, you’ll have noticed all those police interviews taking place and being recorded – from Superintendent Hastings to Lisa McQueen we’ve seen more interviews than ever this season. Police interviews form an integral part of …
As with so many other celebrations we mark throughout the year, Easter has some connection to the changing of the seasons (Halloween is another of them, which we’ve talked about before in our blog “All Hail Halloween” which touched on how the celebration marks the end of the Harvest and the beginning of Winter). Easter …
We’re working more and more for medical writers here at FSTL, producing transcripts for them for a wide range of scientific and medical documents. Who are medical writers and what do they do? These documents are required for a number of different purposes including: publication articles such as journal manuscripts and abstracts content for healthcare …
This is always an interesting one… whether the transcription world is ready for artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Can artificial intelligence really replace humans? Recent figures confirm what we here at FSTL firmly believe: there may have been significant advancements in AI capabilities over the last few years, but humans still stand out as being …
You’d think it would be simple. You have a word. It has a definition, a meaning… Not when it comes to the English language! At 600,000 words in the Oxford English dictionary, the English language has one of the largest vocabularies of all the languages of the world. There are a number of words in English that …
There are a whole host of reasons why organising a conference is the right move for your business. You may feel it’s the perfect platform to showcase your expertise in your particular field. You can communicate your message to a number of people in the right way and at the same time. Or it might …