WayWithWords Review: Is Freelance Transcription Worth Your Time?
Discover the ins and outs of WayWithWords, a UK-based transcription service. Learn about the sign-up process, pay rates, and whether it's a viable income source.
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Way With Words Review - Is This Website Legit, And Do You Want To Be A Transcriptionist
Added on 09/07/2024
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to this video. If you arrived here, you're probably searching for a review, WayWithWords, so I'll go over how it works and give you my two cents, whether I think it's a good use of your time. Now, I'm always coming out with videos like this, so consider subscribing. And if you'd like my free training on the number one simplest way to make money online, you can check that link below. You'll see my email opt-in page. Enter your best email, and I can set you by free workshop if you want. All right, WayWithWords, let's dive in. So what this is, it basically is a website where you can find freelance transcription work. And transcription, if you don't know, is simply taking an audio or a video file, could be a lecture or a court deposition or an interview, and typing out the words so all the, it's in text format. And you could also be doing captioning. That's basically creating subtitles. And lastly, speech polishing. That's taking an AI-generated bunch of text and editing it to fix the mistakes. Now, WayWithWords is a UK-based company. They've been around for almost 20 years. They have a 3.9 star rating on Glassdoor, which is quite good. So if you're wondering, are they legit? Yes, they're legit. Now, whether or not transcription work is a good way to make money, that's a whole other matter, and that's what I'll talk about in a bit. Now, assuming you are interested, the sign-up process is simple. You're just gonna register an account, take a series of tests to evaluate your typing, your English skills. Your listening abilities, ability to follow instructions, and so on. And if you pass these tests, then you'll begin working under a trainer where you'll learn the ins and outs of this job. But you'll be getting paid, so it's kind of like an apprenticeship. And eventually, you'll start working by yourself. There's no special equipment required, but you should probably have, you know, headphones, basic transcription software, and a foot pedal to free up your hands to type while you can fast-forward, pause, and rewind the audio files. As far as the pay, it's between 45 cents and $1.73 per audio minute. Keep in mind, for an advanced transcriptionist, it can still take three to four minutes, roughly actual minutes, to complete one audio, one minute, in one audio minute. So, and for a beginner, it's more like, it'll take them more like eight minutes. So if you do the math, as a beginner, you'd probably be earning under $4 an hour. As someone who's faster and has access to better-paying jobs, it is possible to earn up to $25 per hour, but it can take a while to get there. They pay out through PayPal once a month, which is nice. So all in all, it's a good opportunity if you don't really need the money and you're just looking to gain some experience in this field. Then you could use it as a springboard to bigger and better things. But are you really gonna be able to pay your bills or even earn a decent side hustle with this? Probably not, because that's not what these websites are designed for. They're only designed to earn you a teensy tiny bit of money and that's basically it. Because the thing is, even if you were able to earn $25 an hour, which is very good, it's not like you can just sit there for eight hours a day, five days a week, churning out transcriptions, because there isn't that much work to go around. Yes, you could sign up for every transcription website out there, but to me that sounds like a headache. I don't think you wanna do that and I don't know how practical that would be. But it's a decent website if you understand what you're getting into. It gets my stamp of approval. Now, if you'd like my free training on, I think a much better, simpler, more beginner-friendly and much more leverageable way to earn money from home, if that's what you're looking to do, then what I recommend is clicking that link below. You'll be taken to my email opted page. Enter your best email and I could send you a free training that'll just detail everything. And this is the exact information that I use to basically not have to work at a call center anymore, which is the work I was doing previously. And more importantly, it's information that countless other students have been able to use as well to quit their jobs or at least earn a very nice side income. And that's it. So I hope you enjoyed this review. I hope to see you on the other side of that link and I hope you have a great day. Bye.

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