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ALWAYS CONSIDER THE WHOLE FILE WHEN YOU'RE TIME STAMPING.
For example, if you do the 20-30 minutes part, your time stamping should start at 20, not 00.

Every 2 minutes:

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Every time the speaker changes:

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NOTE: If there's a comment next to the audio file saying, "Please use the embedded time" or "burned-in time", you will need to download the file in order to watch the video and use the correct time.

Major rules:

1. In general, short and logical, grammatically correct sentences are preferred. When a speaker is using conjunctions like 'and', 'so', or 'but' to connect longer stretches of thought, it's often a good idea to create sentence divisions in those places. Also, don't forget to cut out the conjunctions in those places when they're not necessary.

2. Longer speeches should be separated into smaller paragraphs. Paragraphs shouldn't be longer than 500 symbols (about 100 words or 3-4 lines in the transcription tool).

3. Never summarize the speech in the audio you are transcribing.

4. Do not correct errors made by the speakers. Use [sic] instead. For example: "All of my childrens [sic] are in school".

EXCEPTION: Correct egregious phonetic and pronunciation errors that inhibit readability or understanding

Example: if a speaker pronounces "refrigerator, washer and dryer" as "refrigurator, washar and dryear", please use the correct word and spelling based on your context of the audio.

5. Everything with a time-stamp, (e.g. [unintelligible 00:04:24]; [inaudible 00:02:24]) should be bolded.

6. Nothing else besides the speaker labels and marks with time-stamps should be bolded. So [laughs], [coughs], [laughter] or [crosstalk] shouldn't be bolded.

7. Never use () instead of []

8. Every sentence should end with a punctuation mark.

9. The beginning of every sentence should be capitalized.

10. Use '--' instead of '...'. Example: "I wanted to say something, but…" becomes "I wanted to say something, but--"

11. Expansions for "it's", "that's", "you've", et cetera are not considered mistakes, but it's preferable to transcribe them exactly as they are spoken. Example: If the speaker says "it's", it should be kept as "it's" regardless of the verbatim

12. Never use exclamation marks.

13. Speaker labels

If there is more than one speaker, their names (if they are known) must be used. If not - mark them as "Speaker 1", "Speaker 2" and so on.
Always use a speaker label, even if there's only one speaker. Speaker:
Make each speaker's role in the audio as descriptive as possible. For example, "Interviewer", "Interviewee", "Host", "Reviewer", "Caller", "Receiver", et cetera.
If the speaker's full name is used at some point (for example, David Butterfield:), later in the transcription, the last name can be dropped (for example, David Butterfield: becomes just David:). The same goes for the titles (Doctor, Pastor, et cetera). This is optional and is not considered to be an error.
If you cannot identify who exactly is speaking, add a question mark before the speaker label. For example, ?Speaker 2, ?Interviewee 3. But if you cannot identify who is speaking throughout most of the transcript, it's better to then mark the speakers with a generic label like Interviewee or Participant. Still, it's important that you are able to at least identify the person asking questions or leading the discussion.
Speaker labels must be written in bold, followed by a colon and a space. NEVER use the Tab button, only one click of the Space button.

NOTE: Occasionally customers dictate instructions to format the transcription while they are speaking. These instructions should be followed when possible, but never transcribed.

Follow customer requests for spoken directions such as new paragraph, comma, period or bullet point (use a dash). Do not type out the instruction.

14. Italicize film, book, magazine, song titles, as well as artworks, plays, TV and radio programs, foreign expressions et cetera. Example: I watched an episode of Friends the other day.

15) Sound events

Sound events that are significant to the audio should also be noted. Use brackets [ ] for notes. The notes are always written in lower case regardless of the position in a sentence.
For example: [laughter] - when more than one person laughs, separate line; [laughs] - when one speaker laughs, written in the same line; [screaming], [background noise] - separate line; [applause], [silence] - separate line; [crying], [sarcastically], [crosstalk] – same line (when 2 or more speakers all talk at the same time) et cetera should be used appropriately.
If a foreign language or a word (in this case, a language that is not English) is spoken, mark it as [foreign language], [foreign word] or [French language], [German language], et cetera if it can be identified.
Note: Authors/titles/personalities/common sense things are an exception from this rule and must always be researched. For example: carpe diem, Jacques Chirac, Frédéric Chopin, alea jacta est et cetera.
[pause 00:00:00] is used to demonstrate a pause significant in a speech. It must be longer than 10 seconds for it to be marked.
[phone rings] – when the phone rings once; [phone ringing] - when the phone keeps ringing; [dial tone] - when you hear the dial tone on the line - These tags should be on a separate line
When the audio is cut or edited, use [sound cut] on a separate line

16) Numbers

Spell out numbers from 0-9: zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine (this does not include phone numbers).
Numbers from 10 and up are written in numerals: 10, 11, 20, 25, 99, et cetera.
NOTE: It is okay to break this rule if it improves readability or consistency (e.g. in a list of items)
Thousands should be written in digits. Do this: 600,000, 5,000. Note that there's a difference between "a thousand" (spelled out) and "one thousand" (digits)
Always spell out big numbers like "million", "billion", "trillion", et cetera. Do this: 40 million, 10 billion. Numbers under 10 should be spelled out (two million).
Times of the day and dates: always capitalize AM and PM. Do this: 2:45 PM, 5:00 AM. When using o'clock, spell out the numbers: eleven o'clock, nine o'clock.
Time periods should be written with an apostrophe: '60s, '70s style; however, "that man is in his 70s" (no apostrophe)
When the speaker uses symbols or equations (like a Math lecture) it's the editor's job to save transcription in Word format and to insert those formulas and symbols and then send that Word version to info@gotranscript.com. That's because our tool does not support symbols or formulas. Transcribers should do their best to transcribe those things using the tool, like writing formulas using regular symbols x = x + 2.
For example:

18) Quotation marks

Double quotation marks "" are used whenever there is a direct quotation. Example: She said, "Don't bother telling me". Quotations are introduced by a comma, not a colon.
Internal dialogues are seen as direct quotations as well. Example: And then I thought to myself, "What if I can't make it?" (Notice how the question mark is inside of the quotation. This is because the quotation itself is a question. However, if the rest of the sentence is a question containing a quotation, then the question mark would be outside of the quotation marks).
Do not use quotation marks in indirect quotations (when the speaker paraphrases what has been said). Example: The man said that he was in a hurry.

19) If you cannot hear what word is being said, mark that as inaudible or unintelligible and specify the time.

Use [inaudible 00:00:00] when it is impossible to hear what is being said due to interferences in the audio.
Use [unintelligible 00:00:00] when you cannot understand what is being said due to the speaker's manner of speech, accent, et cetera.

20) Do NOT make up your own markings. Only use the ones that you find in the guidelines.

21) If there are curse words in the audio, transcribe them word for word

22) Onto vs. On to

Recurring mistakes will also be harshly penalized!
If a transcriber finishes 3 transcriptions and has 3.4 or a lower average rating, he/she will be removed from the team.

Clean Verbatim

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The transcribed text does not include:

Speech errors
False starts (unless they add information)
Filler words. Note that some of them can have a different function. For example, in the phrase "Oh my God", "oh" is not a filler word, but a part of the expression, therefore it must be kept.
Slang words must be written as "going to" instead of "gonna", "want to" instead of "wanna", et cetera.
"Yeah", "yep", "yap", "yup" must be written as "yes"; "alright" must be written as "all right".
Never spell "Ok" or "OK". It must always be spelled as "Okay".
Never change spoken contractions (e.g. do not → don't or don't → do not)
Don't start phrases with conjunctions in clean verbatim. If you really need to add the conjunction, just expand the phrase. For example: I went outside, butforgot to bring my umbrella.

Note: omit all the "mm-hmm", "yeah", "yes" reactions to retain a fluent text, unless they are answers to given questions. [Mind the verbatim ex. Don't write "mm-hmm" as an answer in clean verbatim, replace it with "yes"] Also, "like" can be kept if it is not a filler word, for example: "I paid something like 200 bucks" or when it introduces a quote: I was like, "Okay".
DO NOT remove filler words if they change the meaning of the phrase. E.g. I was kind of happy; It was like three days ago- leave them in

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Full Verbatim

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Those are:

Speech errors. "I went to the bank on Tu-Thursday."
False starts. "I, um, wanted- I wanted to be a musician."
Filler words such as "like", "you know", "yeah", "mm hmm", "uh huh", "umm", "uh, um", "sort of", "so", "oh" et cetera.
Slang words, such as gonna, wanna, gotta, kinda, 'cause, should be kept in the transcription. In addition, "you know", "I mean" should also be transcribed.
Stutters and repetitions.
Only use these forms for the affirmative/negative:
Mm-hmm (affirmative) or Mm-mm (negative)
Uh-huh (affirmative) or Uh-uh (negative)

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Introduction

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WHAT DO WE DO?

We provide audio transcription services, which means that we convert audio and video files into text.

In our system, you can pick the files you prefer to work on. You must have a PayPal or Payoneer account as we do payments only with PayPal or Payoneer . Payments are done every weekend, on Friday. Also we cover PayPal fee so you will receive exactly amount which you earned and there will be no fee to receive payment. To request payment go to WORK area to STATS page. There you can request for payment.

Instructions

Every time a client uploads a file, you will receive an e-mail. After that, you need to go to the transcription jobs page and choose the files you want to transcribe.
There you will also see the information about the turnaround time, text format (clean or full verbatim) and timestamping type, if one is required.
After your transcription is uploaded, you will see your current earnings on the stats page.
Payments are done every weekend, on Friday. There will also be a statistics page where you will see how much you have earned for each file.
All of your transcriptions are going to be checked by editors. You will receive a rating and comments to help you improve your work.
If your average rating is better than 4.5, you can try to become an editor.
Sometimes, the quality of audio or video files is horrible, so please let us know about that. We will contact the client and provide a refund for that file.
Transcribe everything in US spelling unless the client asks for a different spelling in his comments.

What do we do?

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We provide audio transcription services, which means that we convert audio and video files into text.

In our system, you can pick the files you prefer to work on. You must have a PayPal or Payoneer account as we do payments only with PayPal or Payoneer. Payments are done every weekend, on Friday. Also we cover PayPal fee so you will receive exactly amount which you earned and there will be no fee to receive payment. To request payment go to WORK area to STATS page. There you can request for payment.

Potential Earnings

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The amount you can earn from Scribie.com solely depends on your skill and ability. For an average case, if you spend 8 hours each day 6 days a week on Scribie.com, the following will be your earnings.

If you spend lesser time, then your earnings would be proportionally lower. Conversely, if you have the skills and are able to pick up the work, your earnings can be double the amount listed. These are very conservative estimates only applicable for the average case.

Please note that the above is provided solely for the purpose of illustration and estimation.

Grades & Promotions

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We employ a grading system to track performance. The grades range from A+ (5/Excellent) to D (1/Poor) and are based on major mistakes found in the submission. The average grade reflects your performance. It is important to maintain a good average grade since you may be promoted or demoted based on it.

You may be promoted as a Reviewer after 1 audio hour of raw transcript submissions have been reviewed and your average grade is above 3. As a reviewer you can review transcripts submitted by other certified transcribers and grade them. You may be further promoted as a Self-Reviewer once 10 review submissions have been verified and your average grade maintained above 3. As a Self-reviewer you can select a Raw Transcript assignment, submit it, select the same file for Review and submit the reviewed file. Self-reviewing effectively doubles your payment rate as you are paid twice for the same file.

Conversely, if your average grade falls below 2.5 you will not be able to select any files. However, your account will remain active and you can still accrue Referral and Affiliate commissions, if any.

Further, if you are able to improve your average grade after self-reviews have been enabled, you may be also promoted to a Proofreader. Proofreading files are generally longer and the payment depends on the duration, accents, difficulty level etc. We also offer contract position for Proofreading where a fixed monthly salary is paid.

We also provide a dispute resolution mechanism for incorrectly graded and/or reviewed files. The disputes are completely anonymous and are arbitrated by our administrators. Our final decision is binding.

Post Certification

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After you have been certified, you can login to your Scribie.com account with your email address and password and select any available file. Files are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and assigned to the first person who selects them. You can select as many files as you want but you can have only one assignment at a time. The assignments have to be submitted within 2 hours with one allowed extension for an hour. You may also cancel your assignment. There are no penalties for cancellation or timeouts.

Your account will be credited with the respective dollar amount for the file once the submission is reviewed. Each file has review-by date and the review will be completed on or before that date. The earnings keep accumulating on your account till you submit a withdrawal request to transfer the earnings to your PayPal account. All withdrawal requests are processed in 1 business day. There are no minimum limits on withdrawals. However a fee of 2% is charged if the amount is less than $30.

We also provide you with an certified profile page and an embeddable widget which you can display on your blog or website. The certificate accredits you as an audio transcriber on Scribie.com and lists your work experience and performance history. You can use this certificate as a reference for the transcription work done on Scribie.com, if required.

Certification Process

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The certification process consists of several steps. A summary is provided below.

1. Application Submission: The first step is to submit your application from the Apply tab. You will be given an application number after the submission is complete. You can track your application using the number provided from the Apply tab.

2. Email Confirmation: To confirm your email address we will send an email to the address provided with a link. Please visit the link in your browser to complete the submission. You can request a re-send of the confirmation email or delete the application and re-apply if you made a mistake with the email address.

3. Wait List Allocation: Your application will be reviewed within 1 business day and either accepted or rejected. You will be notified of this via email. If rejected you can delete and re-apply. If accepted you will be added to the waiting list for the test. You can track your waiting list number with your application number from the Apply tab. There are 9 applicants on the waiting list currently and the estimated waiting period is 1 days.

4. Test Invitation: We will invite you to take the test when your waiting list number reaches zero. The invitation will be sent to your email address and will contain a link. Visiting the link in your browser will prompt you to create an account on Scribie.com. Creating the account requires you to choose a password, which along with your email address can subsequently be used to login to Scribie.com. Account creation is required only once and you can delete your account anytime.

5. Test File Submission: Once you login to your account, you will be presented with a list of files. You have to choose one of the files, transcribe it and submit the transcript. The submission will be first screened to check if it is adequate and it may get re-assigned to you at this stage. If re-assigned you will be notified via email. Therefore please watch out for an email regarding that after you have submitted your test file.

6. Certification: When your submission is accepted for review, a review-by date will be assigned for the file. Depending upon the results of the review you will either be certified as a transcriber (and paid for the test file) or rejected. If rejected, you may compare the differences between your submission and the reviewed file, enable re-test and submit another test file. The maximum number of attempts is 10.

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Introduction

WHAT DO WE DO?

Instructions

What do we do?

Potential Earnings

Grades & Promotions

Post Certification

Certification Process