Podwriter ad (Podcast Transcriber / Transcriptionist)

So, here we go again! On with the ad!

We are again in need of part-time transcribers for podcasts (internet radio shows). This is a work-from-home job and involves general transcription. College and high school students are most welcome to apply.

Requirements:

1) Must have a computer or laptop at home with steady internet access (DSL if possible). You will be required to download audio files.
2) Can work with minimum supervision and can work within deadlines.
3) Past transcription experience not required, though being well-exposed to media (cable tv, movies), news and familiarity with different accents would be great.
4) Must be able to be online most of the time, for easy communication.
5) Committed to producing quality work.
6) Excellent grammar skills

Earnings are based on how much audio you can transcribe, which can be from P500 to P2,000 to P6,000 and up per month.

Please send your resumes in Word format (.doc) to resumes@skillze.com. You will be notified by email about your application by the next day so please check it often. Work starts immediately if you are accepted.

Sorry, Philippines residents or Filipinos only.

Podwriter ad (Podcast Transcriber / Transcriptionist)

So, here we go again! On with the ad!

We are again in need of part-time transcribers for podcasts (internet radio shows). This is a work-from-home job and involves general transcription. College and high school students are most welcome to apply.

Requirements:

1) Must have a computer or laptop at home with steady internet access (DSL if possible). You will be required to download audio files.
2) Can work with minimum supervision and can work within deadlines.
3) Past transcription experience not required, though being well-exposed to media (cable tv, movies), news and familiarity with different accents would be great.
4) Must be able to be online most of the time, for easy communication.
5) Committed to producing quality work.
6) Excellent grammar skills

Earnings are based on how much audio you can transcribe, which can be from P500 to P2,000 to P6,000 and up per month.

Please send your resumes in Word format (.doc) to transcriber@skillze.com. You will be notified by email about your application by the next day so please check it often. Work starts immediately if you are accepted.

Sorry, Phillipines residents or Filipinos only.

Are you here for the job?

Click here to go to the Project page.

Skype + Transcription?

Skype announced a new feature with the launch of the new version of Skype. You can read about it here. For me, basically it opens up a lot of opportunities. We can now offer transcriptions of Skypecasts (as well as any other recorded regular Skype call) since we can just listen in during the conference and give them the full transcript of the proceedings a couple of days after.

We'll take care of the nitty-gritty, you get a full transcription of your media, audio or video. Simple, ain't it?

tags: skype, skypecast, transcribe, transcription, podcast, voip, transcript

New Service in Town

I haven’t been posting for a while due to the holiday rush but we have someone new in the block.

Podtranscript is a new services that offers the podcast transcription at 10 USD/ 30 minute segment. There are just a few details up on the site besides that but they offer a free no-obligation trial. Currently, they transcribe 10 minute segments for free.
Maybe I can be part of this? I dunno…

New Sample

You can read my new sample here or at the link in the sidebar. It’s from the Podtech.net podcast during the Telecosm Conference.

It talks about syndicating Silicon Valley, moving businesses to the heartland and Life 2.0, in general.

Some new buzz

I’ve noticed a bit of a buzz on the topic of podcast transcription lately

1) Michael Arrington at Techcrunch wrote again about this here. I’ll be trying to offer my services, direct, to ‘castingWords myself since their Mechanical Turk offering seems a bit low for even me (around 25c/minute), though it could fill up downtimes.
2) Pinoy Tech Blog also has a write up here. We certainly can do this service, though maybe not full-time since you really should be doing professional transcription for medical and legal services if you want the big bucks.

3) Enablr seems to be down. Me and Ken King have thrown some emails at each other, but nothing final as of yet. They have a service called transcribr that will handle this and we’d like to take up his offer as his offshore labor. Hope he can drop us a line since both his websites seem to be down.
4) Contacted John Furrier at PodTech.net. Hope he responds soon!

5) Still need a Paypal account. We can’t seem to get their service in the Philippines. Help!

I did another sample transcription here. It’s the update speech of Steve Jobs introducing the new iTunes 5 and the Motorola ROKR.

Stormpay

Would have been nice, but I don’t have a ISP provided email addy. Sucks.

Still searching for payment options…

Xoom!

I’ve just made an account in xoom.com to handle payments.

They have a 25 US$ minimum when sending, though. I could credit the excess for future transcriptions, but I’m gonna look for something that will handle stuff as low as 10US$.

I also added buttons, just don’t use them yet!

Still researching…

The recent article in techcrunch got me thinking of offering this service. I’m still studying how to do it, and coming from a country that does this thing for cheap, I think I can pull off a decent service with minimum cost.

To Do:

1) Set-up a way to get payments

2) Get a decent webhost, so I can have my own space

3) Get a domain name. While podwriter.com is already taken, podwriter.net is not.

Everything is going to be human-edited (we’ll set aside using tech later). Hope to get this off the ground soon!