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An Update on Transcripts
🕑 Added 2021-06-24 10:01:03 +0000 UTCHey Patrons,
We’d just like to give you all an update on the transcripts situation for all our in-house productions.
We’ve already allocated major resources and are working with some professional transcription companies to start getting all existing and future shows sorted in the next few months including Stellar Firma, Rusty Quill Gaming and The Magnus Archives.
We’re sorry this has taken so long. Over the last 18 months, we have had several false starts and dead ends as we explored various solutions, none of which panned out in a way were comfortable with and as a result our messaging around this issue has been inconsistent.
To briefly explain, our backlog has proven far more expensive and labour intensive than we originally anticipated. This meant we could not afford a full professional transcription service for all shows until recently and even then, we have found that work from the best professional companies will still require considerable additional internal work if we want to prepare them in a format familiar to those of you who have read our existing transcripts.
To be clear, we have already trialled numerous methods used by industry peers, but unfortunately we have found them to be inconsistent in quality, unsustainable at our larger scale, or making extensive use of free labour.
All that said, we are pleased to say that we are now at the QA stage with a reputable professional provider, we’re checking samples meet our internal accuracy/accessibility standards and we’re calculating the timescales needed to address our entire backlog a.s.a.p. We have already committed the significant funds to commission our entire back catalogue and have restructured our internal processes to accommodate a new system and are building a whole new website to better facilitate accessible transcripts for all shows at point of release going forward. We hope that all these changes working in concert together should place us in a strong position on transcripts going forwards but obviously it’s too early for us to be certain on all points.
We’ll update everyone on any major developments going forwards and as soon as we are confident we have a permanent, sustainable and ethical solution in place that will meet our standards, we will proceed publicly. Until then we’d like to thank everyone for your ongoing patience as we work through this complicated process.
Comments
Thank you so much for the update and for making sure there will be transcripts available!!
Erienne McCray
Thank you so much for the update and for your transparency on this! I know it's going to take a lot of time to get things transcribed and it's very good to hear that you're working on it. Thank you for keeping accessibility in mind. This is one of the (many many MANY) reasons I support the Rusty Quill and everything you do!
TheCyanStar
Thanks for the update! Really looking forward to RQG transcripts
Varya B
thank you for the update, and really happy to see how you've explained, step by step, what is happening within the company to work towards getting quality transcripts for the show. looking forward to all of the other work you're doing, and to supporting you further 💛
Kath
Thank you for letting us know! I have been thinking about how huge and difficult an undertaking this has to be 🧡
Jaymes Brown
I love these kinds of updates. I am so proud to support you as a company when I know how diligent you are about the quality of the products you provide.
thanks!
Dzvm
Thank you for the update!
Lauren 'Inka' Seward-Munday
Oh just to clarify, does this mean youtube subtitles will be dealt with in this process or is this just the official transcripts.
Lauren 'Inka' Seward-Munday
I love to hear it!!
PeachyIndeed
Thank you for the update! <3<3<3
Owleics
Thank you all so much for the update! Your due diligence with creating consistent quality for these transcripts is appreciated! I'm looking forward for when these are finally completed, I'm sure the end result and having transcripts for all new releases going forward will be worth it
