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 associated with a prompt provided to the author substantially when the author dictated the dictation data; 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 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; and displaying an indication of the rule violation to the transcriptionist via the computer-implemented transcription environment.