But most of the tapes have only just been declassified, and a team of historians at the University of Virginia's Miller Centre is just now getting down to the business of transcribing them.The transcribers make big claims for their project.
By a quirk of timing, I am transcribing letters home to my parents in Stoke, covering the period in 1978-79 that became known as "the winter of discontent".
In addition, the Chilcot review also puts a figure of between £4.25bn and £9.25bn over 20 years on the extra costs that would be involved in transcribing and examining the recorded conversations.
It is the phonetic system used virtually everywhere in the world, including the United Nations and the International Organisation for Standardisation, for transcribing Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet.
About 70% of the BPO industry's revenue comes from call-centres; 20% from high-volume, low-value data work, such as transcribing health-insurance claims; and the remaining 10% from higher-value information work, such as dealing with insurance claims.
Mechanical Turk, owned by Amazon, lets people with a few spare minutes work on "micro-tasks" such as transcribing podcasts or image-tagging .These trends don't necessarimage-tagging .Theser of jobs, butrends do the quality of jobs, the security of jobs, how much people are paid an'tthe benecessarily get," notes Mr Reich.
Since the spooks cannot (yet) easily tell who is transcribing code from a piece of newspaper, or track photos of QCR codes, they need never learn that a whistleblower has installed the software.That is not to say that AdLeaks is foolproof.
As Egypt creeps towards democracy, we look at what the revolution might mean for its womenBook transubstantiation A service for transcribing print into bits is a boon for all those who find it hard to let go of musty tomes but are running out of shelf space.
But modern services, such as software development, call centres and outsourced business processes (from insurance claims to transcribing medical records), use skilled workers, exploit economies of scale and can be exported.
Mr Harris dramatises seemingly mundane events: taking dictation, transcribing speeches, swotting up on the law.
This promised to disrupt the mainstream media of the day the work of monks who were manually transcribing texts or carving entire pages into wood blocks for printing.
