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Transcription Typing Jobs at Home By Dustin Heath Transcription is a great way to attain typing jobs at home. It is a popular clerical/administrative choice.Transcription is taking a dictated voice recording and typing it into a document. Though not required, having a foot pedal makes transcription much easier. You use the foot pedal to start, stop, rewind, and fast forward while leaving your hands free to do the typing.

Three main types of transcription include general, medical, and legal.General transcription can include typing up business meetings, conferences, lectures, memo's, letters, and the like. Usually there is no training required for general transcription and there are many categories it can fall under. You could transcribe for a school and specialize in one field, such as science, or even do a broad range of fields. You could do it for a business, typing their office letters and memos.

If the business is specialized, they could require you to have a basic or thorough knowledge of what their specialty is, especially if you are dealing with a lot of terminology related to it.Medical transcription usually requires training. There are schools who can train someone who studies full time in six months or less.

You are required to have at least a basic understanding of the medical language. There are a lot of disease and drugs out there, and you need to build a good understanding of them in order to be proficient at medical transcription. Once you have had training, you could seek employment through a hospital, clinic, or even medical boards and other establishments that handle medical reports.Click here for the next.