TTE Community and Charity Work
Council Member
Council of 1,000,
National Resources Defense Council
Contributor
Children's Memorial Hospital
American Heart Association
St. Judes
Sponsor
Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
Local Causes of Interest to Our Employees and Subcontractors
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Web Site Changes Coming Soon
Common Sense Solutions, Inc. (CSS) is hard at work making improvements and adding new features to the TTE Web site. CSS is presently building a login page for submitting transcription requests online and a customer profile page. These projects are expected to be completed by the end of March. Web design and search engine optimization company BatesMeron has also recently been hired to work on the Web site. BatesMeron will be updating the look of the Web site and fine-tuning it for search engine optimization, as well as creating a page tailored for government business and prospects. Watch the newsletter for updates on the changes and announcements of when projects have gone live.
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TTE's CEO Includes Travel In 2009 Business Plan
 As part of her 2009 goals, CEO Terry Thompson is taking to the roads to visit TTE clients. She plans to head first to the East Coast in the Spring, once the weather is more conducive for traveling. Thompson is looking forward to connecting with both familiar and new faces, receiving feedback about TTE and suggestions for improvement, and discussing additional services TTE could provide.
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TTE Transcribing Streaming Audio
 With a client's move from teleconference audio recordings to an in-house recording system, TTE will be transcribing for them from streaming audio. If you have anything on streaming audio or video we could transcribe for you, let us know. We'd be happy to help! |
Surviving the Economic Downturn and Setting Goals Highlight Vistage Meeting
The economy and
business survival has been an ongoing conversation in recent months at CEO Terry Thompson's Vistage meetings. Hosted in January by Brian Sutherland of Highland Solutions,
this past month's discussion centered around preparing for what's to
come in the economy and making a company's margin and bottom line
healthier for business survival. Group members also discussed their
2009 goals using the acronym SMART as their criteria - Specific,
Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Time-Based. Trends and positioning your company to be able to prosper through the economic downturn will be the
focus of the February Vistage meeting. Economist Brian Beaulieu will be the
guest speaker. Beaulieu is the Executive Director at the Institute for
Trend Research in Concord, New Hampshire. He has engaged in business
cycle analysis, as well as applied and fundamental research, at the
Institute for Trend Research since 1982. Beaulieu has served as the
Institute's Executive Director since 1987. Thompson is hosting the February meeting, which will be held at the Vistage Midwest Regional Office in Rosemont, Illinois.
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Administrative Work Piling Up?
Have you had to make changes to your administrative staffing in this economic climate? If so, IdeaScribe, your virtual secretary, is here to help. Call TTE today at 847-592-6211.
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Correction
Last month the article "Creating Great Audio Recordings" contained an error. Point #2 should have read "Individual recordings can be done with traditional phone handsets."
We apologize for the error and any inconvenience it may have caused you. The corrected article is reprinted below.
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Creating Great Audio Recordings
Soft or muffled voices, words mumbled or spoken
quickly, people speaking at the same time, background noises. Things
that occur over and over again in everyday conversation. Many times
when we aren't even aware of it. Yet, in everyday face-to-face
conversations and meetings, the essence of what is being said can often
be understood by the accompanying body language or written materials.
Understanding can come in spite of challenges from voice projection,
speech articulation, or background noises because of contextual clues.
With audio recordings, however, the opposite is true. The more
difficulty with voice projection and articulation the speakers have,
the faster someone talks, the more often people speak at the same time,
the noisier the environment, the farther away someone is from the
microphone - the less understandable the audio is since there are no
contextual clues. To help ensure a successful dictation and
transcription project and to achieve optimal audio recordings, TTE's
CEO Terry Thompson offers the following six tips: - Pick a quiet area to record your meeting or conversation and minimize background noise.
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all speakers individual microphones or use a Polycom unit with large group recordings. Individual recordings can be done with traditional phone handsets. For optimal recording, speakerphones should not be used, since they only clearly
pick up the voices closest to the microphone.
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Speak clearly and slowly.
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Have only one speaker at a time. If several people are on the line at the same time, do not talk over each other.
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If you are using a cell phone, you will get the best
results speaking in a quiet room and not using the speaker function of
your phone. Driving in a car while being recorded is not recommended;
it is not only hazardous, but does not pick up well.
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Send any industry specific terminology that might be used with your transcription request.
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| Client Testimonial
"I always get a fast response when I send files for transcription. This service saves my company many hours in productivity. Without TTE, it would be difficult for us to complete our projects and meet our deadlines."
Merry Woten
Metia
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