Transcription work.. what exactly is it

[Annie Beau]

What is transcribing? Is it audio typing? And is this what Lionbridge, Appen and Leapforce do?

TIA

Annie

 

[Jon]

What is transcribing? Is it audio typing? And is this what Lionbridge, Appen and Leapforce do?

TIA

Annie

Leapforce are no more, they merged with appen

Transcribe work is converting audio files to text

Companies like takenote offer that sort of work

 

[Annie Beau]

Thanks, is there a specific WPM requirement

 

[Jon]

Thanks, is there a specific WPM requirement

For the proper stuff I’ve no idea I’m afraid

My only experience with it was working on the OK GOOGLE work that Appen dished out a few years back

 

[Sherliarty]

The ones I looked at did not have WPM requirements but to make any decent money from transcription, I would say that you need a good typing speed of at least 55 wpm probably more. I tried out some of the tests, I did a 4 minute audio and it took me nearly 40 minutes to transcribe as I had to rewind a lot to hear odd words I missed or couldn't make out. Then there is the style guide you have to adhere to and keep referring to. I did three 4 minute audio tests, passed two and failed one despite scoring 95%. I declined to try again as they offer no feedback and my brief experience made me realise I am not a natural transcriber. My typing speed is probably about 45-50wpm.

 

[Annie Beau]

The ones I looked at did not have WPM requirements but to make any decent money from transcription, I would say that you need a good typing speed of at least 55 wpm probably more. I tried out some of the tests, I did a 4 minute audio and it took me nearly 40 minutes to transcribe as I had to rewind a lot to hear odd words I missed or couldn't make out. Then there is the style guide you have to adhere to and keep referring to. I did three 4 minute audio tests, passed two and failed one despite scoring 95%. I declined to try again as they offer no feedback and my brief experience made me realise I am not a natural transcriber. My typing speed is probably about 45-50wpm.

Better get some audio typing stuff downloaded. I can type pretty fast if they're looking for illegible text..

 

[MikeBondWrites]

I found that it's not so much the typing speed or WPM that held me back but the fact some of the audio is really hard to hear and understand, there's always the odd word that you can't make out and that you have to then spend ages rewinding over and over until you're sure of what's been said. I found it was things along those lines that slowed me down so much, rather than my WPM count. It then made the amount of money per minute of audio seem far too little for a lot of effort.

All that being said I'm sure it gets easier and faster with practice also, having good headphones would help too.