Do you have a strong command of the English language, its syntactical and grammatical rules? Are you comfortable with understanding American English accents or speech and have a decent typing speed to boot?
If you’re looking for a work from anywhere or freelance or work-from-home job and you have these basic skills, you may be the right person to take up a remote transcription job.
Transcription involves converting audio files to text by listening to the audio and typing it out. You don’t need any special equipment, except for a working computer, usually one with Google Chrome, and a reliable internet connection.
Most of these jobs (except legal and medical transcription jobs) require basic knowledge of English. Medical and legal transcription jobs require specific knowledge and understanding of medical and legal terms.
For entry-level, remote job seekers, remote transcription jobs can pay quite well, allowing you to earn a decent income working from home or anywhere in the world, at your own time and pace.
Being an excellent transcriptionist — one that actually gets hired — involves much more than the ability to listen and type. Janet Shaughnessy of TranscribeAnywhere offers affordable, high quality, proven transcription education. These courses were developed to transform typists into transcriptionists in as little as 2-4 months.
You can learn to transcribe with excellence, and you can do it from anywhere. Get all the training you need on a solid e-learning platform with multimedia training tools, videos, practice, templates, quizzes, and thorough how-to marketing tutorials that aren’t available anywhere else.
Download a Free eBook, The Truth About Transcription, and take the Free Transcription Foundations 7-Lesson Mini-Course to learn if you’re a good fit for transcription and how much you can earn as a transcriptionist.
She also offers a Free Legal Transcription Mini-Course that is an overview of the industry along with foundational information to help you in your decision on whether or not to pursue it for yourself. This mini-course will NOT prepare you to work as a legal transcriptionist.
In the article below, I’ve compiled a list of websites that showcase the best remote transcription jobs. Register on them so you can find the highest paying remote transcription jobs, no experience required.
This list is a work in progress, so I’ll keep adding to it as I come across more websites. So bookmark this page and come back to it often.
1. GoTranscript
This is a thriving online-only transcription and translation company. They are growing their freelancer transcription team, to keep pace with the rapid growth in customer orders.
They pay up to $0.60 per audio or video minute. A transcriptionist’s average earnings are $150/month while top earners make around $1215/month.
2. TranscribeMe.com
They hire transcribers from anywhere in the world. You will be asked to complete their Transcriber Training programme and exam once you register.
All applicants who successfully pass the training course will be contacted and will have paid work available to them. In some cases, you may have to be put on a short waitlist as they process your registration.
Transcribers are paid US $20 per audio hour for general transcription, although different projects and specializations may offer higher rates. They also have the chance to become QA (Quality Assurance) agents, responsible for consolidating, proofreading and editing transcriptions.
There are also further specializations, such as special project teams and captioning transcription teams. These other opportunities often entail different, greater, pay scales than our standard transcription rate.
3. Scribie.com
They offer home-based transcription jobs for those who go through a test process and get certified as a transcriber. Once certified you will be paid for the files you transcribe on an audio hour basis.
You’ll have to transcribe short files, 6 minutes or less. However, there are no obligations, monthly commitments or withdrawal limits. You pick and choose the files to work on.
Payments are made once a day via PayPal and start at starting at $0.60/min or $5 to $25 USD /audio hour, with a monthly bonus of $5 for every 3 hours completed.
4. Quicktate.com
Get a remote job typing and analyzing files for Quicktate and iDictate. Quicktate transcribes voicemail messages, memos, letters, legal files, medical files, recordings of phone calls, conference calls and other audio files.
They also audit, summarize, evaluate and analyze audio recordings and phone conversations. Some audio files, like voicemail messages, may average just 2-3 minutes in length, while other recordings may be significantly longer, perhaps several hours. IDictate transcribes all types of files, except for voicemail messages.
To qualify you’re required to have accurate spelling and punctuation, and the ability to listen to voice files and accurately type what you hear. You can’t have convictions of a felony or misdemeanour on your record.
You can take a typing quiz for each language or speciality you are interested in (e.g. English, Spanish, French, Medical Transcription).
You may also be given an opportunity to be tested to analyze audio files. Depending on how you scored on your Quicktate typing test, you may qualify to be tested to also offer your services to iDictate.
As an Independent Contractor, you can select your own hours that you want to work. You can work as few, or as many hours as you want.
5. Rev.com
They specialize in transcription, translation, adding captions and foreign subtitles. You can apply to become a Transcriptionist, Captioner, Subtitler, or a Translator.
Work as much or as little as you want, whenever you want. All you need is a computer and an internet connection. You’ll receive regular feedback and coaching and receive weekly payouts via PayPal for all work completed.
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Shilpa, please signup on the websites above.