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Comment on: Buckminster Fuller: everything I know
At max, two full work weeks for an amateur to transcribe 42 hours of decent but not great quality audio. A professional could do it in near realtime.For me, it is notable that this is notable for you. This used to be as ubiquitous of a profession in modern organizations as typists were. Many people's entire job was going to meetings and/or listening to calls, transcribing the conversation, not just taking notes.Professional stenographers transcribe in realtime with phonetic markers and everything. Even lightly trained transcriptionists can transcribe 1 hour of audio in 1.25-1.5 hours of wall c