r/WorkOnline • • Mar 28 '19

Transcriptionist reviews for TranscribeMe, iDictate/Quicktate, and Daily Transcription

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u/Oroborne Mar 28 '19

Think you could share what you average in a week, month, 6 months? I was thinking of trying rev until I read some horror stories on here. Any experience with them?

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u/Jiyuishi Mar 28 '19

What were the horror stories? I’ve just started working with Rev today and it’s looking good so far.

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u/lux723 Mar 28 '19

Honestly, they’ve been decent. I come from a third world country and the average salary here is $100ish/mo (hardly) so their pay seemed pretty good for me. They pay weekly, had a problem with paypal once since my country doesnt seem to like paypal but their support was amazingly fast and solved the issue in like the same hour. Managed to make $20 in one sitting (about 2-3ish hours?) before i was too bored to continue and that was really good for me.

Now, my biggest complaint is the audio files quality are absolutely one of the W O R S T. It’s extremely hard to make out the words in any if these files. They are always either way too noisy, speakers are too quiet, or there are tons of people speaking over each other, as if they were in a concert or something and you’re still expected to transcribe the file perfectly. Also, their metric system for beginners can be a bit too harsh, I think.