What you will do:

As an independent contractor, you will be working from home as a freelance transcriptionist, making an accurate text document of the contents of audio, video, typed or handwritten material.

We transcribe oral history interviews (with WWII veterans, women in academia, farmers, midwives…), focus groups, financial forecasts or quarterly reports, tech webinars, commencement addresses, interviews about NGO work, educational reform or health care access, or anything else you could think of, and even occasionally TV shows. We don't do medical transcription.

Who we’re looking for:

• Fast and accurate typists (minimum of 80 wpm), who can deliver files within 24 hours or less for an hour-long file.

• People with a wide range of interests or educational experiences. As the subject matter varies broadly, it’s easier to understand the flow of conversation when you have some context for what is being discussed.

• Transcriptionists who are fluently bilingual or multilingual are always welcome.

Requirements

• Strong language, style, and punctuation skills, and the capability and willingness to follow our in-house style manual as well as project-specific instructions.

• Ability to verify names and terms via brief internet research. Much of the work we do is for archives, so these transcripts will become part of a historical record and need to be of high quality to reflect that permanence.