Speechink has increased it's payrate!!!!!!

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  1. shariqueahmer

    shariqueahmer Banned

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    I have stopped working on mturk for the last two month since I am working on Odesk now. But recently I have noticed that Speechink has increased it's payrate on verbatim transcription from $15 an hour to $18 an hour!!! Is it really true that they have increased the transcription rate on all of their hits or only on some difficult ones. Thanks for your update.
     
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    shariqueahmer Banned

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    Things are improving on mturk (price and quality) and maybe that might be the reason why they have stopped taking in new accounts to increase the quality. What are the other new changes that you have observed in mturk? I felt like we all had been in Noah's ark (when all new accounts were not approved) and since we all survived now we are here in this new world with new opportunties. The only reason, I would ever move from mturk to Odesk, Elance etc is due to the payrate and if I get the opportunity to make more money on mturk then I will stay.
     
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    Yes, I too have noticed many quality HITs coming up recently. Less rejections, less scam requesters, looks like both the HIT quality and payrate are improving in mTurk. * Touch wood *
     
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    So that was a good move by mturk to stop taking in new accounts. maybe they just wanted to improve the quality and price here on mturk. Thank god we have survived the flood in Noah's ark and rejoice in the new world. So Noah built a great ark and took all the good turkers in and then the gods brought in a great flood and all the scamsters died there and the world was a better and happier place again. Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! I'm very happy that Speechink has increased it's payrate because I love working on transcription hits more than any other hits and it pays more. Hallelujah!!!
     
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    I have noticed an increase in quality and ive only been there 2 weeks. I don't even bother with HITS less than $0.1, and used to have to scavenge for them but now im making legit money for online stuff.
     
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    But, Speechink seems to be slower on the approval now. That's all I do is their transcriptions and they are usually extremely fast to approve. I've now got some I've been waiting on for a week. I kind of need it as my daughter's birthday is next Friday. And I did the qualification for video transcribing. Would be nice to know if it's approved or not!
     
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    They approve their verbatim hits in a day but it might take like 3 to 4 days for the non-verbatim hits to get approved. A lot of money can be made by doing speechink hits if you work hard and have experience in transcription.
     
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    Yeah, I just got paid for the verbatim hits yesterday but still waiting on the non verbatim, which are the ones I prefer to do. Usually are easier to hear. I have a hard time with those insurance calls. It's always a bad cell phone, heavy accent and I'm doomed.
     
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    If it helps clogan, those business presentation ones they put up pay same-day. They're financial conference calls and they have only a few hours' turnaround on them. The audio is normally really good on these too. I know this because I used to edit for them but found the pay rate to be abysmal and found something a little more lucrative.
     
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    I am irate, I was transcribing into the Apple Notes application and upon finishing notes froze and my task timed out. Sometimes these things happen and the task is possible to complete 20 minutes later. Hopefully I will get lucky and get paid for four hours of work.
     

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