Speaker 1: Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie, where I teach you different ways that you can make money online working from home. So a lot of my subscribers have asked me why I have not been posting a lot about transcription jobs in the past few weeks or months. They've also been asking me about transcription job availability in 2023. So I wanted to take the time to do this video for you guys today to talk about transcription job opportunities in 2023. Is there actually a lot of transcription work and how much money can you expect to make? And one of the reasons I have not been posting a lot about transcription jobs is that right now there is not a whole lot of work available. A lot of companies aren't hiring and a lot of companies that are hiring are actually just going to put you on a waiting list or there just isn't a whole lot of work available even if you've passed the test. So I'm sure you've seen a lot of different YouTube videos out there. I have seen some crazy YouTube videos saying you can make $63 an hour transcribing, some that say you can make up to $200 an hour transcribing or make $1,000 a week or $5,000 a month. And if you are trying to get a job with one of the most common transcription platforms, this is false. It's a lie. All of the videos are talking about the same websites and these websites are not going to make you rich. It's a lot of work. Transcription is a lot of work. So if you still want to watch, even after all that, I am going to show you some transcription websites that are hiring and also talk to you about the ones that I would not waste my time on right now. So let's get into it. Okay. So the first website I'm going to talk to you about is CastingWords. Now CastingWords is hiring, they're hiring worldwide. However, this is the problem. Once you get accepted, you will go into available jobs and if you click on all jobs, you'll see that there are 377 different jobs available. However, if you click on available jobs, it will say zero entries and that's because let's see here, fix automated transcription, say I wanted to do this job. When I click on it, it says your transcriber rank isn't high enough for this job. So basically you can't do any work until you have a higher ranking, but you can't get a higher ranking unless you do jobs. So, you know, it's kind of a waste of time. The next one is CrowdSurfWork and in the past CrowdSurfWork had a lot of work available. There were always little tasks you could do. However, since the pandemic, I think they got a whole bunch of transcriptionists and now that's the same problem. If I click here on all, you can see all of these different jobs and the number of tasks available. But if I click on qualified, which ones I'm qualified for, there's none. Okay. So if I click on qualifications, you can see that I'm qualified to work on review and edit transcription tasks and qualified to work on transcription tasks. However, there are never any available. You know, I'm not sitting here refreshing all day long, so I don't know if any do come available, but every time I have looked to check, there hasn't been anything there. So wouldn't waste my time with CrowdSurfWork right now. The next one I want to tell you about is TranscribeMe. So TranscribeMe, I had an account and I had to do the reactivation exam, which I did last month, I believe. And I wanted to see how much work is available. So when you click here on transcription, it will automatically bring you to the work hub. And when work becomes available, it will appear here automatically. So, so far I haven't seen any work today. Now maybe it's because it's Friday, I'm not sure. You can see here I've earned $1.06. So last week there was work available, but it was every so often a file was popping up that I could transcribe. It wasn't continuous. So there is work available with TranscribeMe, but maybe not as much as other platforms. So that's one to consider. The next one is Scriby. You can see here one file is available for transcription. Scriby used to have a lot of work available, a lot of files, and in the past few months there has not been a lot of work. I have a lot of subscribers who are transcriptionists for Scriby who've asked me, what's the problem? Why isn't there any work available? And I talked to, down here if you click on live chat, I talked to someone who works for Scriby and they said that they just haven't had as much work available and they're hoping to change that this year. So there is work available, but again, it's not as much as it used to be. But this is one you can also consider. The next one is Rev. And Rev right now is definitely the best one when it comes to volume of work. You can see here earlier today there were 124 jobs. If we refresh that, let's see how much work is available right now. And bear in mind, it is Friday around 6 p.m. Toronto time. You can see here 73 claimable caption projects. And let's look at how much the pay rate is. So here's a huge one. Let's say you did this one, an hour and 26 minute file. You get $0.54 per minute. You would get $46.49 for transcribing that file. Now again, it does take quite a bit of time to transcribe these files. So the highest pay rate would be this one here. This file is $0.84 per minute. Oh, actually this one here, the pay per minute is $1.26 and this one. So for this 38 minute file, you'd get paid $48.05. That's pretty good. So Rev's files are ranging from ones that are over an hour long to other ones that are a minute long. So what's good about Rev is it's not just in bite-sized files. You can pick a file that's over an hour long or 50 minutes long and preview that file before you claim it. And if you do a great job, then you're guaranteed to get this $40 or $30. So something like that, even just doing one of these files a day can give you a pretty decent income, depending of course on what country you are living in and what the cost of living is in your country. Okay, so Rev is hiring. However, three days ago, this was updated. And where does Rev accept transcription and caption freelancers from? They accept freelancers from the following countries, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, except for California. So this has changed before it was worldwide or there were a lot of countries outside of these countries that could apply. However, right now you have to be from one of these countries. And if you are not from one of these countries, you can apply to their foreign language subtitle program. You can click on that as well. So here is where you can translate subtitles with Rev and you get paid quite a bit more for this as well, over double. So let's look at some other ones people have been talking about. SpeechPad right now due to high demand, they're not accepting new applications. They say, please check back in a few months. I think it's been closed for like a year. So don't waste your time with SpeechPad. QA World used to be the easiest one to get into. The pay was very poor, but right now they're not even hiring. There's no apply now button. So they have all the transcriptionists that they need. You could always message them or contact them on Facebook or email them and ask them if they are currently hiring, but it looks like they're not right now. Tigerfish right now is not hiring. Tigerfish.com slash applicants when available openings will be listed below. So they're not hiring right now. Now here is one I was really excited about in my last video on transcription jobs, Happy Scribe. It looks like a really great program. A lot of people were getting accepted, but the problem is that they are being put on a wait list and everyone's on the wait list. If you go to this video on the Happy Scribe YouTube channel and you read the comments here, you can see, nice, I was shortlisted, but I'm still on the waiting list. I hope to get hired soon. I'm on the waiting list. So this person says, don't bother applying. They'll announce in a generic email that you're shortlisted and they never get back to you. So unfortunately, I think they probably have so many people on their wait list that they're not actually giving work to any of these people. You could always apply just to have some experience with the transcription exam. However, you're not going to probably get any work out of it. So it's a waste of time. The next one is WayWithWords. This one I tried to get into years ago when it was open. So WayWithWords is one of the best transcription companies. However, right now new registrations are closed temporarily. So WayWithWords is at capacity right now. They are not hiring. The next one is Go Transcript. Go Transcript is hiring. I have never actually been able to get into the platform, but I know that they do generally have an okay volume of work from what I understand. It is worldwide and they also pay with PayPal and Payoneer. I can't tell you exactly what it looks like once you've logged in because I don't have an account with Go Transcript. But from what I understand, there is a decent volume of jobs. So this is another one to consider. The next one here is Transcription Plus. And this one I've not applied to, but this one is for medical transcriptionists. So if you have experience with medical transcription and if you are from the United States or live in the United States, you can apply to TranscriptionPlus.net. And I'm sure they probably pay better than other programs. It's medical transcription, which is more complicated. The next one is Accutran Global, and they are hiring for remote captioning, but I believe you do have to live in North America in order to apply for this one. So this next company here, they are hiring from the US and Canada. The next company is GMR Transcription, and they are currently hiring for general transcriptionists and Spanish transcriptionists and certified translators. And on their website, they say that transcriptionists and translators typically earn between $1,000 to $3,000 per month. I don't have experience with GMR, but I hear that they're a pretty decent company. You can click here to apply. However, it's important to note that they only accept resumes from applicants within the US, okay? So you have to be from the US to apply to GMR Transcription. The next one is SpeakWrite. SpeakWrite is currently hiring. You do have to live in the US or Canada again. So this is another one you can apply to if you're from the US or Canada. And the next is 3Play Media. They are also hiring transcriptionists, but again, you have to be from the US to apply to 3Play Media. So if you are from the US or Canada, you have a lot of different opportunities for transcription companies. However, if you are not from the US or Canada, you can still apply to Go Transcript. Go Transcript is worldwide. You can apply to Scribby. Scribby is also worldwide. You need to have a PayPal account for Rev and for Scribby. You can be from a few other countries other than the US or Canada, as I showed you before. But Go Transcript pays with PayPal and with Payoneer. Again, Scribby, there's not a lot of work right now. There are a few jobs here and there. Rev always has a lot of work. And Go Transcript, from what I understand, does also have a decent volume of work. Now, if none of these platforms are working for you or you can't seem to get hired, there are some other possibilities for you to work as a transcriptionist. You can go on a website like Upwork.com and under Find Work, you can type in transcription English or transcription jobs. And you can scroll through here and see if you can find any. I see here this one, need transcription of an 11-minute file. They're willing to pay $10. Another job for a transcription expert. So what you can do is on Upwork, you can really make your profile look great, have some samples of your work. So you could have a PDF file or a Microsoft document showing something that you have transcribed with speakers, with timestamps, and just make it look really professional. You can also search for jobs on Freelancer.com. You can type in transcription English and search for jobs there. You can go on LinkedIn and you can search for transcriptionist jobs under remote and just scroll through and see which opportunities are available for you based on your region. You can also go on Fiverr and you can set up a transcription gig. So you can see here, English transcription. There are a lot of different gigs, but all of these people have reviews. So people are purchasing these gigs. So if you create a nice thumbnail and have a nice profile, this is also an opportunity for you to do freelance transcription. And another opportunity is also people per hour. You can post a similar sort of gig on a website like this. So I really wanted to do this video to give you some idea of what transcription job opportunities are like in 2023. There are definitely less transcription jobs available than there were last year or the year before, and especially before the pandemic. I also think that there are less transcription jobs because a lot of people are just using automatic AI software to transcribe their texts for them. Now human transcription is usually better than AI transcription because some files require a human ear to distinguish between voices or to know which word they meant. If it's a homophone, for example. So I always think there is going to be transcription work available, however, less than before for sure. If you want to learn a little bit more about transcription, I have linked you in the description below to my transcription playlist. I hope this video gave you some insight into what transcription work looks like in 2023, and I will make sure to post more videos if I come across any other transcription opportunities. Thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure to subscribe to Jennifer Marie for more videos like this one, and I will see you in my next tutorial.