An
Excellent Work from Home Option - Professional Transcriber
Gone are the times
when you can only earn by working till late at office thankfully
today you have lot many more options where you dont need to go
to office and work till late and still get no benefit out of it.
At present there are many opportunities available online where
you can earn money from the comfort of your room
right in front of your laptop. One such job that lets you have
the liberty of working on your own is Transcription job. It is
one job where you can be paid every minute for which you wont
need any major qualification too. All you need is to have some
basic language skill; a transcriber transcribes a piece of audio
file into text format. Example if I would have narrated this
article rather than writing it then I would have needed a
transcriber to convert it into a text file to get it posted in
one of the site for a searcher who wants to know what is
transcription job all about .
Comfort of working from your Home.
I personally feel that transcription job can be rated as one of
the interesting jobs why because why because the transcriber
gets to know so many interesting things thats happening around
the world. Transcription job lets you work from home and at your
own choice of time. Say I work for a office and one of my family
member falls sick, now I have no other choice but to take a
leave from office and what if the illness prolonged, I can
neither quit my job nor let my family member die. My boss would
never understand the reason of my absence at office. But a job
like transcription gives you the liberty of working from home
and you can take care of your family without making a compromise
on your financial front. A basic knowledge of English is all
that you need.
Transcription process - A Short Insight
A transcription job involves you to listen
carefully to what the audio file has to say and type it exactly
as you heard it saying by doing that you have done a job that
pays you well and lets you work at your own convenience of time
and place. Also the technology equips you to work more
efficiently; there are various tools available online for free
that makes your job a no hard task! Tools like Microsoft Word
Doc spell checks the text of the transcription so one also
needs not mug up the spellings. There are more tools available
online which are specifically designed and developed to make the
transcription a lot more easier than one can even imagine, using
these tool you can slow down the speed of the audio or even
increase it, raise the volume, adjust the voice modules bringing
a more clarity to the audio, peddlers by which one can stop and
start the audio file so that the Transcribers hand focus on
transcribing the audio and the foot supports the pause and start
of the audio file thus making the job the job of transcription a
fun activity, where the audio dictates and the transcriber takes
the dictation of the speaker/s.
Transcribers are paid depending on various parameters- audio
length being the most important parameter in calculating the
transcribers earning others audio quality, number of speakers
involved etc . One can easily do 5-6 hours of audio file
transcription every week. An hours audio normally takes around
3-5 hours of work for an efficient transcriber. There are
various companies who have openings all around the year. All
you need is to send your CV and apply for the job .
The transcription companies usually would give you a test file
that needs to be transcribed and returned and your selection
would be based on the accuracy of the transcribed file viz-a-viz
to the audio file shared with you and nevertheless the
turnaround time of your file also would one of the foremost
reason for the transcription company to decide whether or not to
hire you for the opening. So make sure that you dont just
transcribe it right but also return the file on time as
Transcription job runs on commitments of time.
Happy Transcribing!
Submitted by:
Sarah H. New York, Professional Transcriber.
