How to Pass Crowdsurf Transcription Test
Hi everybody welcome to my next tutorial so I recently put up a poll to ask if you are interested in me giving more tutorials for transcribed transcription work or user testing or captioning and it was pretty much a tie between transcription and captioning so I've come across this that I've known about this website for a while and never actually tried out before it's called crowd-surf work calm so is crowd-surf a good fit for you do you enjoy reading writing and reading are you looking to make a little extra cash on the side so let's click on learn more so what is crowd-surf basically it's a dedicated community of freelance transcriptionists working to create video captions for deaf hard of hearing and second language viewers we offer short transcription tasks available day and night so that you can work anytime anywhere it's free to sign up you'll be paid instantly and we offer several opportunities for growth and promotion.
Crowdsurf Transcription Application Process Video Tutorial
So I want to know and see how easy it is how it compares to rev which i've done a tutorial several tutorials on and if it's easier to get accepted so if you look over here your benefits instant income by day's end you can have cash to spend okay so that sounds like you get paid right away easy tasks most h IT jobs or hit jobs are very easy which is cool because I know on Rev some of them are almost impossible steady work jobs are waiting for you to accept them no resumes no interviews no waiting flexibility work on your own schedule if you have a free few minutes throughout the day use them alright let's look here required skills you must speak read write fluently in English have a PC or Mac reliable internet basic typing skills great listening excellent proofreading so the first step we have to do is sign up on work market crowd-surf uses work market to higher end pay all crowd-surf freelancers you'll join crowd-surf via work market and work with us on our private editing platform the crowd-surf work platform it's easy to get started use the link at the bottom of this page and create your work market account and this is important note choose writing and translation as your primary industry use the drop-down list to select your postal code.
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I'm going to copy this so I can use it later if I ever get the work market team will review your profile and tax information this typically takes less than 24 hours set up your payment method you can choose direct deposit PayPal and more step to work market uses recruitment groups to connect you with employers offering freelance work once your work market account is set up apply to join crowd-surf as a new crowd-surf transcriber review the guidelines and take a brief assessment to join the crowd surf group ok so first we're gonna sign up on work market then join crowd surf and then we're going to start here it says get started USA Canada gets started international I am USA Canada so I will click on this ok so if just click to get started USA Canada we've read all this already one thing they say you have to have a valid US or Canada ID so if you're from a different country make sure to click get started' international reliable pay.
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Crowdsurf Assessment Test Answers
Pay depends on level of proficiency and amount of work completed work ranges from 5 seconds to 30 seconds for each audio clip payment ranges from 3 cents to 20 cents per media minute plus additional bonus rates this is shockingly low oh my god 3 cents and people were complaining at Rev when they dropped it down to 25 cents per medium in it which is insane so I'm really curious to see if this is as easy as they're making it out because I don't know what kind of money you're gonna make transcribing our video captioning for 3 cents a minute so I am curious to see how this is even a thing that people even do but anyway let's just see what happens so remember please put writing and translation as your industry for work market ok so we're going to go to the top we're going to click join as an individual sign up for work market so put it in your name last name email and your password read the Terms & Conditions and click register.
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Ok now says thank you from crowd-surf next steps you've completed the signup process and should receive a confirmation email shortly make sure to check your spam folder as well so I'm gonna go into my email I've also received an email saying please confirm your work market account so I'm gonna make sure to confirm my account ok so now I'm going to log in my email and my password that I created earlier and click on remember me and login okay so now we've got some profile information we can fill out you can add a photo put your name your phone number click continue then you're going to click location then click continue now you can choose your expertise so remember what they told us earlier what was it they said writing and translation okay so I'm gonna click writing and translation as a primary industry there we go and then use the drop-down list to select your postal code.
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Okay I do not know what I'm supposed to put here under job title it says use the drop-down list so I'm just gonna put in a captioner for fun I'm going to click continue and see what happens great you are now ready to search and apply for assignments so they hear they have banking information tax etc I'm just gonna click get started for now ok now I'm gonna go back to that email I got with a labor cloud invitation and I'm gonna click on View labor cloud because that's what I want to connect to from work market com.
Ok so I was sent a link to this group this is the crowd-surf transcribers US Canada workforce group that says here you do not meet all the requirements for joining this labor cloud but you can apply anyway you will apply as an individual worker so before I click apply I want to add in these missing requirements the first one is crowd-surf driver's license or other ID to prove that I'm either from the United States or Canada so I'm going to click add update ok now it says thank you your request for labor cloud membership to the labor cloud trance crowd-surf transcribers workplaces pending and will be reviewed so basically they've put in a pending request but I want to add in my certification anyways so writing a translation crowd-surf certification I'm going to put in international ID card because I'm gonna put in my passport and then you're gonna put in your issue date and the expiry date and then an attachment.
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So I'll just click browse to find where I've located my passport ok so now I've uploaded my passport and then I'm going to put in the issue date of when my passport was issued ok so make sure to put in the issue date you don't have to put in the expiration date it doesn't have like an asterisk but I figure it helps because that's something that they put here so I put in the expiration date and now I'm going to click Add certification ok so now it says the certification was added to your profile but is pending verification by work market ok so you can see I have that here and now you can see I'm back at the Labor cloud for crowd-surf transcribers they have put in membership request is pending but I still need to take the test.
Crowdsurf transcription style guide
So I have added my ID but now I need to take this crowd serve transcription assessment also I want to show you if you scroll down you can see that this is managed by Cynthia a there's four hundred and thirty four members of this group and this was created just in July so this is quite new actually so now let's click a take test okay so first how did you find us were you referred by anyone next question so now they say please be sure to familiarize yourself with the following resources before you proceed to the next question so we've got the crowd-surf general guidelines technology glossary most common requirements okay so I'm going to open up the guidelines and the glossary and the common requirements and then they've got 18 questions for us for us to review so let's click on the full general guidelines most common requirements clean verbatim transcription your transcripts provide captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers transcribe the audio content exactly as heard but leave out these sorts of words American English spelling and grammar no exceptions.
Crowdsurf Transcription and Captioner Test Answers
So if I'm Canadian so I would make sure to spell like an American transcript format beginning of hita end of a chai tea always capitalize the first letter of the first word in an a chai tea even if it's not the start of a sentence okay I've just googled what is an a chai tea because I have no idea and they've said it suffer several times before human intelligence tasks so every transcription task is known as human intelligent task and a chai tea always close hit with a period unless you're sure that it's the middle of a sentence then leave it open or with a comma never close it with a dash or ellipses so you can go through this and look at all of these guidelines there are a lot of different guidelines I would keep this open there's also section to spelling and grammar this is telling you how they want you just spell certain words so for example if you have to write all right you they don't want you just they want you to spell like this not like this okay like this not like this etc.
Crowdsurf Transcription and Application Process
So this will help you telling you how to correctly spell these certain words we've also got accepted slang so you can put these sorts of things but not this so I keep this open while you're doing the test the next section was the Gardner glossary so that's the technology glossary I guess in case you have to use or look up any words how to spell them and then most common requirements so here there's more and the there's a table of contents you've got full general guidelines the glossary tech glossary yeah there's a lot of resources here they have some training videos all sorts of stuff okay but I just want to kind of get into the test and see what it's all about so I'm going to go back here I'm going to select I have reviewed the crowd-surf guidelines and glossary and now I'm going to click Next question alright.
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General guidelines what does clean verbatim transcription mean so basically all of these questions are answered in the test itself so for example what does clean verbatim transcription mean if you look in the guidelines says here transcribe the audio content exactly as heard but leaving out all these kinds of stuff that doesn't really help so transcribe exactly what it said but leaving out this sort of stuff here next question this one says example transcribe the media task how should this video be transcribed note this is worth for approximately 40 percent of your grade okay so I'm doing my test transcribing this test but I wanted to show you to go if you go back to the guidelines under Section 10 there's sample transcripts so here they show you when there's a speaker change imagine that it was spoken like this speaker 1 speaker 2 etc.
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When you transcribe it what they want you to do is for a speaker change to put in these double arrows here and then a space and then you continue okay so you'll need that for when you're doing the actual test itself but when you start off make sure just not to put in the speaker changes you'll just start off with the capital like this alright so I pretty sure I did I follow the directions correctly of how to transcribe this video so once you're done you can click on next question okay they say which of the below are not accepted Spelling's in crowd-surfed transcripts choose all that apply again you can go through the guidelines to make sure you've answered these correctly I think I've got them correct next question which are discouraged punctuation marks in crowd serves transcripts choose all that apply please choose the most correct transcription based on the number guidelines which sentence has the most correct grammar when should a blank audio tag be used choose all that apply the speaker says something that sounds like as a mall and a computer programming a chai tea how should this be transcribed access the glossary here okay.
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So I'm on the last question now I've just skipped through a few of them but basically they show you a couple different videos and you'll have to answer some multiple choice now I really recommend you looking at the full guideline to help you what I do is just I press ctrl F on my keyboard to get this little search and then I can type in I don't know like math for example to see you know some of their rules for each of these sections so afterwards it says the past score is only based on the multiple-choice questions the transcription video you transcribed accounts for over 40% of the grade your passing score may not be valid if the transcription you provide it doesn't follow our general guidelines great it says congratulations you're done if you need to change any answers go back now otherwise click Submit answers are you sure you want to submit the test yes great so it's congratulations you pass this test so let's look at my results so I have one attempt it's taken me an hour and six minutes I took up a little bit of a break and my final score was ninety three point three percent okay so as you can see here fulfilled requirements I have passed the crowd-surfed transcription assessment the only missing requirement is the certification which was my ID so my membership is still pending and then I'm gonna wait until I get accepted because I'm assuming I'm gonna get accepted all they need to do is verify my passport and then once I get accepted I can do a follow up video basically teaching you are showing you what it's like to work for crowd-surf and how much money you can make and what the job volume is etc so thank you for watching and I'm looking forward to updating you a bit more about crowd-surf once they have approved my ID.
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