[X4U] Transcription, document management (part deux)

Daly Jessup jessup at san.rr.com
Thu Sep 28 04:41:53 PDT 2006


At 9:32 PM -0700 27/9/06, Jim Robertson wrote:
>Thanks for the detailed response! I'll digest it gradually and probably ask
>you more questions!
>
>The issue that's easiest to discuss is about the dictation software breaking
>the sound files into chunks. That's so that they're smaller than the email
>server's allowance for attachments. If a 3 minute mp3 is about 3 Mbytes, and
>a dictation goes on for 10 minutes, it may be too big to send to our
>transcriptionist as an email attachment. That's why I was wondering about
>creating an ftp server on our LAN.

You can do FTP. Another handy way to transmit larger files is to buy 
a .Mac subscription. Then you could drag the files to the iDisk and 
she could just download them from there from her own Go menu/iDisk.

Daly
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