Spot Submissions
Monday, December 12, 2011
Brother Neil Halava is the main editor here at Voice of God Recordings. Unlike most editors, his job isn't to change one thing that Brother Branham said, but to make sure that everything he said is properly transcribed from audio to text, word for word, and to place proper punctuation where it belongs. Like every other thing we do with the Message at VGR, his work is checked, double checked, and checked again to make sure we have the most accurate transcripts possible.
Brother Neil has dedicated 28 years of his life designing the Table software and helping to transcribe the Message of the hour for the Bride of Christ, working hand in hand with VGR. For 19 years now, the entire Message has been in full text form, and it's still a continuing process to manage the many corrections that are discovered as audio of Brother Branham's recorded voice becomes clearer. Brother Neil calls these corrections "Spot Submissions." Anytime he, or a person in or outside the building, sends in a spot submission, Brother Neil takes them straight to the recorded Word, and checks the audio in question over and over until he is sure that the submission is the correct way the text should read. After the submission has been approved, the Table is updated with the corrected text.
This little story of a spot submission came from in-house here at Voice of God Recordings.
Brother Neil:
I have received thousands of spot submissions over the years... This one, which I received from young Brother Isaiah Fritzinger (the 11 year old son of Brother Paul Fritzinger who works on the press at VGR), is the most precious that I have ever seen.
Greetings Brother Isaiah,
I wish to thank you very much for your wonderful suggested corrections. They were done very professionally; I knew exactly where the spots were, and I could clearly understand what you were suggesting.
I can assure you that they will get my full attention. We work very hard to get our books and software to reflect exactly what Brother Branham said.
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I appreciate so much that you took the time out to help me make our product the most accurate that is humanly possible. Submissions like yours help us immensely in achieving that goal.
Please continue to submit your suggestions as they are very valuable to us here at VGR, and to me, personally.
I am very happy to have you on my team. I was personally blessed to receive your submission. I liked it so much that I scanned it and sent it to Brother Joseph and many people here at VGR. I have received literally thousands of suggested corrections, but I must admit that I enjoyed yours probably the most.
God Bless you!
I am yours in HIS service,
Brother Neil Halava
Voice Of God Recordings
Brother Isaiah, now 12 years old, has sent in many more spot submissions since the one mentioned above. We thank him for his service in helping us provide the Message of God's prophet in the purest form possible.
