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25th September 2008 - Link Blog

Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk. Andy Baio’s in-depth tutorial on submitting HITs to Mechanical Turk. I hadn’t realised how straight forward and powerful the interface has become.

Posted 25th September 2008 at 6:37 pm

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