Scribie has transcription jobs – no experience required.
Requirements
- Scribie hires transcriptionists without experience.
- They hire worldwide but you have to be able to get a verified Paypal account.
- They prefer people with fast typing speed.
- The main qualification is passing their transcription test, which may include strong accents. To pass the test, you will need a fast typing speed, good listening and comprehension skills in English, including American, British, Australian and Indian accented English.
- You need to use a headset (a foot pedal is not required).
- You need the latest version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari web browser.
Overview
- Flexible hours. There are no obligations, minimum commitments or withdrawal limits.
- You choose the files to work on when you want to work and can listen to a sample of the file to check the quality before selecting it.
- You’ll transcribe short files, 6 minutes or less.
- You have to complete a 6-minute audio within two hours.
- Most of their files are telephone calls, interviews and speeches.
- Transcription files go through a three-step process of raw transcription, review, and verification.
- They provide an automated transcript with each file. The automated transcript is machine generated and the accuracy varies from 60% to 90% depending upon the audio quality, accents, and other things and has to be corrected before submitting. This can still save you around 50% of the effort.
Pay
- The website says that they pay $5 to $25 per audio hour for Raw Transcription and Review which is $0.5 to $2.00 for a 6 minute file.
- Transcribers report making $10 per audio hour ($1 per 6 minute audio).
- They pay a monthly bonus of $5 for every 3 hours completed each month.
- Your pay doubles when you become a self-reviewer as you will get paid twice for the same file.
- Reviewers make the same amount of money per audio minute but it’s less work so you can make more hourly.
- Proofreading pays a fixed amount per file depending on the difficulty level, accents, deadline and various other factors.
- They pay daily.
- They have contract positions for proofreading which pays a fixed monthly salary.
- There is no minimum withdrawal limit.
- They review your transcripts within a few days.
My comments
- Scrubie is one of the easiest places to get accepted – especially if you're a fast typist.
- The pay is one of the lowest. There are other transcription companies that pay much better — even for newbies.
- It’s a good place to learn transcription because you can see your work after it has been reviewed.
- You can be promoted to reviewer, self-reviewer and proofreader based on performance. And you can become a reviewer very fast.
- They often have bad audio quality and interviews with foreign accents. Transcribing poor audio quality, multiple speakers and accents will take longer. You can turn down any files you don’t want to transcribe. But transcribing those is good practice to learn to transcribe audio with accents and multiple speakers.
- Availability of work varies. You can choose from many files some days and other days there won’t be any.
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How to Apply
Apply at https://scribie.com/freelance-transcription#apply
- Your application will be reviewed within 1 business day and they will notify your acceptance or rejection.
- After your application is accepted, you’ll be added to the waiting list to take the test. The waiting time fluctuates but can be long – I’ve heard anywhere from a couple of weeks to a year. After passing the test, you’ll get accepted within a couple of days. You can take their test 10 times. They will give feedback if you don’t pass the test.
Get more info at https://scribie.com/freelance-transcription#intro
Also read their FAQ at https://scribie.com/freelance-transcription#faq
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