Transcription, but less tedious?

Post date: 2020-02-12 19:35:58

I have received my first and somewhat sudden transcription request and find it tedious. Am I doing it wrong?

I am currently between jobs and was asked by a relative whether I would do a transcription/translation for a bit of money. It's an audio file in language A, and I only need to provide the script in language B, and can leave out irrelevant utterances. I sent a sample of a few minutes in word and it was okayed. As a fast typer and someone who used to interpret before, this was fairly easy, but when I was done with the first file, I was told the client wanted everything typed in Excel with time stamps. I understand that that is probably fairly normal and I my initial setup was most likely too good to be true, and am now spending hours going through my file again, copying it into Excel by speaker and adding time stamps.

I have two more audio files to translate and time stamp, and I dread it. Am I doing this in an unnecessarily slow way or is stopping the audio file to check the time and typing in the translation into the corresponding cell really the only way?

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