Get paid to transcribe audio and video filles. Earn up to $60 per audio hour or more, depending on the difficulty of the audio (such as technical audio and poor audio).
Job description
As a transcriptionist you may transcribe:
- audio filles, such as interviews and podcasts
- video filles, such as youtube videos
- live conferences, proceedings etc.
You're required to have good listening skills and be as accurate as possible, even when the audio is of very poor quality. More analytically your basic skills include:
- strong listening skills and understanding various accents
- attention to detail
- basic proofreading skills (as a transcriber you don't change the text or correct grammatical mistakes, unless the customer requires you to do so)
- editing skills
- editing AI filles
- transcript formatting (such as paragraph structure and inserting tags, such as speaker labels)
- fast typing skills
- researching unfamiliar words, such as companies names and products
- following company's guidelines (each company follows some basic rules for consistency reasons)
- language skills
- organization skills
- time management skills
Pay rate
There are two main types of transcription, general transcription and
technical. If you wish to transcribe technical or specialize in medical/law transcription your pay rate increases. The same usually applies if you're transcribing difficult audio (very poor audio, heavy accents).
However, pay rate varies a lot depending on whether you work as a part of a team or alone, and whether you're full employed. If you're working alone your pay rate usually ranges between $0,50 to $1,00 per audio minute, thus $30 to $60 per audio hour.
If you're a freelancer working as a part of a team, pay rate usually ranges (approximately) between $0,10 to $1,00. Some companies offer editing AI filles, such as QA World, or getting paid to complete HITs (small and easy Human Intelligence Tasks), such as with Amazon's Mechanical Turk and CrowdSurf.
