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Mixodorian posted:I have a windows 7 PC with Chrome and have an iPhone which I could use Chrome on, could I help you out? Is the PC a laptop? If you have a laptop, I can take a few. Not looking for iPhone users at the moment though. Shoot me an email or PM if you've got a laptop, I'll send you the sign up form and the materials.
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Jun 20, 2016 06:33
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jabro posted:I have a car with chrome. Could I help you?  Not yet. Maybe in a few years I could foresee a project...
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Jun 20, 2016 06:34
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No. 9 posted:I'm recruiting for an Appen task if anyone is interested. It's one-time for now (might be a 2-3 future rounds) paying $25 AUD to PayPal. I have an Android phone with Chrome on it, what would I have to do exactly though? Are you going to need recordings of my lovely voice?
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Jun 20, 2016 06:59
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Yeah that's what it is. Your press the mic button that's on the page and record whatever word or few words come up. Your name isn't tied to the voice though.
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Jun 20, 2016 07:21
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If you ever need US female voices for this, I'd be interested. I have both a Windows 7 laptop and an Android phone.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:01
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Haven't had to sign up for DT for awhile... "Q: Tell me about adult baby porn?" Gulp.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:35
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thylacine posted:Haven't had to sign up for DT for awhile... That sentence is in the imperative voice, so it should have a period, not a question mark 
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Jun 22, 2016 23:23
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But what if they're asking is like a question, you know, like simultaneously questioning their career and life choices up to this point? I get what you're saying, but DT cares more about emphasis than grammar. I once got told I wasn't putting question marks on a respondent enough. The respondent was Australian... yeah.
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Jun 23, 2016 00:15
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thylacine posted:Haven't had to sign up for DT for awhile... Yep. One of the more horrifying projects.  
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Jun 23, 2016 01:16
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On the other hand, I think JKL just threw me a nice fat slow pitch right down the center of the strike zone. If this is what I think it is, I'm gonna have a blast this weekend.  (It's gonna make up for the NRA/Trump interview I had to deal with this morning.)
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kazmeyer posted:On the other hand, I think JKL just threw me a nice fat slow pitch right down the center of the strike zone. If this is what I think it is, I'm gonna have a blast this weekend. I am literally so jealous of you right now. That sounds like it must have been pure gold! Gold is of course made of terrible sound bytes and thinly veiled racism/sexism/all the isms.
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Jun 23, 2016 02:40
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Slightly Used Cake posted:I am literally so jealous of you right now. That sounds like it must have been pure gold! Gold is of course made of terrible sound bytes and thinly veiled racism/sexism/all the isms. I've yet to do an interview with the Orange One himself, but I've done interviews with just about everyone else you can imagine. Japan is really loving confused why we're giving Trump the time of day. I'd say at least half my salary this year so far has come from Trump jobs.
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Jun 23, 2016 06:42
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thylacine posted:Haven't had to sign up for DT for awhile... counterfeitsaint posted:Yep. One of the more horrifying projects. Look on the bright side - we can use the money from transcribing this stuff to buy brain bleach so we can forget we ever transcribed it in the first place! Wait, what was I invoicing for again?
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Jun 23, 2016 19:00
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 Needlessly extreme immediate and thoughtless reaction with life-altering consequences for a minor colloquialism that works in context? Yup, TB, that sure is your kind of sheriff.
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Jun 24, 2016 17:55
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Best part about watching Brexit last night: Realizing I'm going to have a ton of super-rush NHK jobs for the next week at least.
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Nighthand posted:
100% consistent with my textbroker experience, yep.
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Jun 24, 2016 23:20
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Do any of you have experience with UserTesting? It seems like the pay is good, but I assume it's all based on how many tests are actually available for you.
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I've never been offered a single test.
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Jul 1, 2016 23:46
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I've been thinking about getting into transcription work since I type really fast (like, 120WPM kind of fast) and being able to work to my own schedule sounds appealing. I read the entire section of the OP dedicated to it and tried to transcribe some test files myself and as maddening as it was I think I could bear it, however all the options to find this kind of work seem to be a US thing? I'm a UK goon, and through my searching I found this which looks alright but I don't really know anything about it. Any UK goon transcribers in the thread that have recommendations or advice or, anything really?
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So disappointed Clash of the Grandmas isn't a Gladiators-style show. SuccinctAndPunchy, once you get a few months' experience transcribing keep an eye on Take 1. They're UK-based and do media transcription: http://www.take1.tv/join-our-team/ Edit: I've been trying to remember this company's name since you first posted. Somebody from Global Lingo contacted me on LinkedIn a few months ago looking for transcribers. Not sure if they're currently hiring, but they're also UK-based and it looks like they take on newbies: http://www.global-lingo.com/jobs/transcribers/ ohnobugs fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jul 9, 2016 |
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Jul 9, 2016 08:24
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This is the first time I've picked up minutes with DT for about a year and I just got a rush job thrown at me because I have minutes for today. Uh, when did I have minutes for 24 hours or more become I have minutes I will therefor take all the things? I always thought of rush work as a specific agreement. I didn't even see a "who wants rush work?" email.
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Jul 9, 2016 18:22
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They stopped sending rush work notifications months ago as far as I'm aware. I know I haven't gotten a rush work e-mail since like late 2015 and I was actively taking DT work throughout the early months of 2016. It's a management shitshow but at least they still pay.
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Jul 9, 2016 19:55
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They were sending out rush emails probably 2-3 weeks ago when whatever shows were wrapping up, maybe they're giving preference now to whomever has already signed up, who knows with them. I've been wary taking work from them because they have some new hard rear end QA person, but I don't have much of a choice now. I applied for another place 3-4 weeks ago and never heard back from them, I guess 1.5 years DT and others experience isn't always enough.
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Jul 9, 2016 20:08
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Oh god, who should I be watching out for?
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Jul 9, 2016 20:23
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Seriously? She's been there for years. I thought she would have calmed her role by now. And when did Lauren leave? That girl is literally a gift to the industry.
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No, I'm an idiot, I meant Donna. Debra doesn't even do QA I don't think, she's just the new backup Sally.
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Slightly Used Cake posted:Seriously? She's been there for years. I thought she would have calmed her role by now. And when did Lauren leave? That girl is literally a gift to the industry. Are you kidding me? I posted earlier about getting a QC note about one typo. Lauren actually sent a file back to me to change one punctuation mark. What a waste of time. Debra did QC for a while. She had a really hard time responding to emails unless I cc'ed them to someone else. Donna seems like a perfectionist, a bit "can't see the forest for the trees," but that's kind of what you want in a proofreader.
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What I'm getting from this is we should start our own transcription company. As the person who came up with the idea I call the vital position of Ideas Guy. My second idea will be putting myself in a position where I do almost no work but get paid well for it, so I guess I call QC and sending every file back sight-unseen.
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Shima Honnou posted:What I'm getting from this is we should start our own transcription company. As the person who came up with the idea I call the vital position of Ideas Guy. My second idea will be putting myself in a position where I do almost no work but get paid well for it, so I guess I call QC and sending every file back sight-unseen. Aw man I wanted to be Ideas Guy. I guess I can be the "play Tetris with availability" guy instead 
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Aw man I wanted to be Ideas Guy. I guess I can be the "play Tetris with availability" guy instead I always mused about how long does it take to do scheduling. I do some fun research on automatic schedule creation (to either optimize some quantity or to make a feasible schedule, usually) and I'm curious how long people spend on those tasks.
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Okay, so I'm intrigued by this idea. I used to do ChaCha during my downtime at college, and paid for at least a game system and a few meals with it, so I'd like to dig into the idea of online moneymaking again and see if there's anything worth doing. My main career is entirely freelance, and I largely set my own hours, but the work is wildly inconsistent. I'll go from 80 hour workweeks for two months to barely 10-15 hours a week for a while. I have a solid grasp of the English language and would love writing as an option, but I'm not opposed to trying anything, as long as there's not a huge time vs. pay disparity. Any strong recommendations on where I should look first?
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Writing is in kind of a trench right now, but look into Writer Access and Constant Content.
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Shima Honnou posted:What I'm getting from this is we should start our own transcription company. As the person who came up with the idea I call the vital position of Ideas Guy. My second idea will be putting myself in a position where I do almost no work but get paid well for it, so I guess I call QC and sending every file back sight-unseen. Last guy I worked for just seemed to have an in with a producer of a certain show and did all the admin stuff himself. He only had 2-3 transcribers but it worked out pretty well for all of us ($1.10 a minute for easy talking head interviews). So all you gotta do is be friends with a reality tv producer I guess. Anyone tried putting up ads in services on LA CL or try to get clients on your own? I could've almost handled the volume on my own for this show and the format was super easy-and I got to leave out all the BS in the interviews.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Aw man I wanted to be Ideas Guy. I guess I can be the "play Tetris with availability" guy instead Only if I can be useless HR person who doesn't understand the field or what independent contractor means.
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I can write website copy that doesn't quite convey what you do, who you are, or what your requirements are. I can even write a few blog posts you can backdate to make it look like you tried to start a blog, saw no immediate results, and gave up on it some time in 2013.
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Pikestaff posted:Writing is in kind of a trench right now, but look into Writer Access and Constant Content. I'll check those out. How about non-writing work? ChaCha was kind of a shithole a lot of the time but I still made money doing it. It was at least a decent alternative to making no money at all during the same amount of time. I think I did Mechanical Turk for a while, but that stopped being worth it. I'm not looking for substantial income, even just 1-2 hours a week and some kind of funds would make a big difference.
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MockingQuantum posted:I'll check those out. How about non-writing work? ChaCha was kind of a shithole a lot of the time but I still made money doing it. It was at least a decent alternative to making no money at all during the same amount of time. I think I did Mechanical Turk for a while, but that stopped being worth it. I see Appen/Leapforce/Lionbridge thrown around a lot. I don't have personal experience with them, and I don't even know what they're really about because they're under NDA, but someone else who deals with them might be able to jump in with some details. There is also UHRS for busywork, which I am in via Clickworker (I signed up for Clickworker and then signed up for UHRS from there.)
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Dear Canadian Post Office, Please don't strike. Seriously. Don't. This is why no one likes you. You have one job with great benefits. Don't be that guy. Sincerely, Everyone who depends on you to get paid On a partially unrelated note, my Canadian clients are pretty much done for now (they can all pay via e-transfer) so if anyone would like to bid on a pretty healthy kidney, I'll be selling it on Ebay later this month I'm sure.
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