1. A method for rules handling in a distributed transcription system, the method comprising: receiving a transcription assignment at a computer-implemented transcription environment, the transcription assignment comprising: dictation data comprising audio information dictated by an author into a dictation interface, the author being associated with a context designation; and a transcription rule set being one of a plurality of transcription rule sets stored in a rules data store and generated for application to the dictation data as a function of the context designation, the context designation including at least one context tag indicating a context for the transcription assignment, wherein the at least one context tag is associated with at least one of a plurality of transcription rules, and wherein the context designation is associated with a prompt provided to the author substantially when the author dictated the dictation data, and wherein the transcription rule set includes at least one of a warning rule or an error rule, the warning rule including a trigger based on a condition indicating a possible error, the error rule including a trigger based on a condition indicating a definite error; receiving transcription data at the computer-implemented transcription environment from a transcriptionist via a transcription interface, the transcription data comprising textual representations of corresponding portions of the dictation data, the textual representations being at least partially synchronized with the corresponding portions of the dictation data; identifying a rule violation by applying the transcription rule set to the transcription data after receiving the transcription data using the computer-implemented transcription environment, the rule violation being associated with a textual representation and substantially synchronized with the corresponding portion of the dictation data, the application of the transcription rule set triggering at least one of the warning rule or the error rule; and displaying an indication of the rule violation to the transcriptionist via the computer-implemented transcription environment.