How to learn to write texts and make money from it

What is transcription?

Transcription of audio or video materials into text. For example, you are provided with a recording of a webinar. You must type into Word what the presenter said.

There are several decryption options:

1. Verbatim, when it is necessary to reflect literally everything on paper: pauses, filler words, obscene words. This is usually required for a trial or investigation.
2. With editorial edits. Parasitic words, repetitions, profanity, and unnecessary sounds (uh, umm) are removed from the transcript.

Different people order typing for money:

1. Journalists who need to transcribe an interview for further work on the text.
2. Presenters of seminars and webinars to post materials on their websites.
3. Writers who are writing the text of a future book in audio format and want to receive a written copy.
4. Lawyers who require transcripts of court recordings or audio and video files used as evidence.
5. Students who record lectures and then ask them to type them in so as not to write them themselves.

How much income can you expect?

Beginners charge 8-10 rubles per minute of recording for transcription. Prices for freelancers with experience start from 15-20 rubles. For example, a transcript of an hour-long interview or speech can cost 1,500-1,800 rubles.

Prices depend on the quality of the source materials (speech can be heard clearly or not, whether there is interference and noise), duration, number of speakers, subject matter (technical or everyday text), the need for additional processing and a number of other parameters.

• For urgent transcription they can charge from 50 rubles per minute. For example, when an order needs to be completed in a day.
• Transcription of a recording from a court hearing costs from 50 rubles per minute.
• Typing text from an English-language source – from 60-70 rubles. From other foreign languages ​​– up to 150 rubles per minute. The rarer the language, the higher the price.

You can receive 15-25 thousand rubles per month. There are companies where earnings from transcription can be higher - up to 30-40 thousand rubles at full load (5 days a week). We will tell you about such employers below.

It should be taken into account that typing requires at least 3 times more time than the duration of the recording. In the case of low quality source materials, processing takes up to 6 hours for every hour of the audio file.

How much can you earn from comments?

As with any other income, income from writing paid comments depends on the time spent and the quality of the text.

Before writing this article, I registered on several exchanges and worked closely on this topic for several days. It’s realistic to make 50 texts in 2 hours. I devoted 4-5 hours a day to this and in 4 days I earned a little more than 1,600 rubles.

I also noticed an interesting trend: the more you work, the more clients come back again. In addition, some are increasing their pay gradually.

I think that if you spend a lot of time on exchanges and services for 1-2 months, then in 4 hours you can realistically receive 700-800 rubles. And this is already 2800-3200 rubles for 4 days. Plus, you can work 8 hours a day, and then your income will increase to 1400-1600 rubles per day! With experience and a strong client base, reaching 40-50 thousand rubles per month is quite possible.

By the way, some people go further in this topic and create individual work sites on the Kwork.Ru exchange. Here are some examples.

As you can see, here experienced specialists sell for 10-500 rubles. And this is a completely different level. But is this type of work suitable for everyone? Let's discuss further.

The main thing is not to violate the rules of the exchanges where you work. The temptation to cheat and grab profits faster is always there. But think about the long term and calmly develop, reaching new and new heights.

Where to look for orders for audio-to-text transcription?

1. Typing of texts for money is actively ordered on the Kwork website. To make money on it, you need to register and add your services to the catalog. Then you wait for customers, do the work and get paid. For example, the author of this work completed more than 200 orders, which means she earned more than 100 thousand rubles. The minimum order on Quorka is 500 rubles.
2. You can search for orders on freelance exchanges, for example, such orders periodically take place on Kadrof.ru. You can subscribe to the vacancy newsletter from the site and monitor such offers.
3. There is a company called Recorded!, which recruits transcribers for remote work. When fully loaded, they pay from 15-20 to 35-40 thousand rubles per month. These numbers were indicated on the website when preparing the article.
4. Sometimes orders are found on social networks and Telegram channels, where remote work offers are published. But be careful - scams are sometimes disguised as real vacancies, as we will discuss below.
5. Well-known transcribers, for example, Elena Buraya, create personal websites and groups on social networks and attract customers by placing advertisements on the Internet.

Earning money on comment exchanges

From the name it is clear that such projects specialize specifically in comments. There are most of these tasks here, so start with them. Typically, applicants are given the task of commenting on posts on social networks, YouTube, websites and many other platforms.

I said earlier that on average they pay 4 rubles. With a good reputation, you can easily find customers paying 10 rubles.

Qcomment

QComment is the largest project in RuNet. Operating since 2014. Judging by the information from the main page, more than 2 million people are registered on the exchange. Authors complete more than 30 thousand tasks every day.

It is also indicated that the upper limit of earnings from one task is 46 rubles. Since there are many clients here, authors are offered work in different topics. The minimum payment amount is 100 rubles.

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Wpcomment

WPComment is also a large project, but slightly inferior to CookComment.
The exchange is semi-closed. Sometimes registration is open, sometimes closed. At the time of writing, you can register as a new author. In general, the functionality is similar to the first project. Also among the most reliable. There are tasks on many topics with different pay levels. Withdrawal to electronic wallets and bank cards is possible. The minimum payment amount is 100 rubles.

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What do you need to know and be able to do to make money typing?

• Be literate, because the text after decoding should not contain errors. It is important to place commas and other punctuation marks correctly. Know how to format dialogues, direct speech, etc.
• You need to be attentive and diligent. People can speak indistinctly, swallow words, and remarks overlap each other. When typing, it is important to figure out who said what and to correctly indicate the speakers.
• There may be unclear terms in audio and video files. It is important to check how they are written and type them correctly.
• Good hearing and high typing speed are important. It is optimal to master the 10-finger typing method on a computer.
• It is necessary to have a high-quality headset with noise reduction function.
• There is specialized software that helps process audio files, remove noise, slow down or speed up recording, which helps make transcription faster. It is advisable to know such programs and be able to use them.

Rule

Test word: slave. I always want to say this, but in general the word “work” is a dictionary word that we recommend remembering. To check the correct spelling, use a spelling dictionary of the Russian language, for example, edited by D.N. Ushakov.

Spelling of suffixes -iva-/-ыва-, -eva-/-ova- in verbs

• Suffix -eva-/-ova- : written when the letter “a” in the suffix is ​​stressed. For example: having overcome .
• when in the first person present tense the verb ends in -уй, -ую. For example: I’m fighting - fighting .
• Verbs are usually formed from nouns. For example: command - to command; sample - try; envy - to envy; excitement - to worry;

Soft sign at the end

Let's start with a soft sign:

• in the present and future tenses, at the end of the 2nd person singular of the verb, the letter “b” is always written at the end of the word. To put it simply, these are verbs that answer the questions: “What are you doing?”, “What will you do?” Examples: you drive, cry, watch, teach, follow, drink.

Personal endings of verbs ending in -ish and -eat

Now, let’s define the rules by which we will correctly write personal endings of 2nd person verbs with and without stress . But to do this, we will need to determine verb conjugations in the most difficult cases.

Step 1. Determine where the emphasis falls

To begin with, it is worth determining the stressed or unstressed ending of the verb. Use the examples below to accurately mark the stressed syllable.

• Stressed endings are found in the words: scream, be silent, make noise, sniff, moo, knock, burn, grumble.
• Unstressed endings for words: vertish, stylesh, see, want, can, blind.

If a word contains the prefix you-, when determining stress, we remove it and check the stressed syllable without it. For example, in the words “you'll knock”, “you'll grow” (from the word “to grow”) the emphasis falls on the prefix you-, and this takes us away from the correct use of the word. You should remove the prefix and check the stress in the word without it: “knock”, “grow”. Sometimes the prefix you- is inseparable from the word, in which case the ending is unstressed, for example: you're growing (from the word “grow up”).

After we have correctly identified stressed and unstressed endings, we will move on to the next step.

Step 2. Remember verb conjugations

Let us remind you that in the Russian language there are 2 conjugations of verbs: the first and the second. In ordinary language, these are the rules by which verbs change depending on persons, number, tense and gender, similar to the cases of nouns.

If the word belongs to the first (I) conjugation , then its forms (personal endings) will be -у, -yu, -eat, -et, -em, -ete, -ut (-yut). Here's an example:

lay -> I lay -> you lay -> he lays -> we lay -> you lay -> they lay.

If the word belongs to the second (II) conjugation , then its forms (personal endings) will be -у (-у), -ish, -it, -im, -ite, -at (-yat). Here's an example:

wear -> I wear -> you wear -> he wears -> we wear -> you wear -> they wear

There are also exceptions that are not conjugated according to standard rules. Such verbs are called differently conjugated (worth remembering):

WANT -> I want -> you want -> he wants -> we want -> you want -> they want

run -> I run -> you run -> he runs -> we run -> you run -> they run

honor -> I honor -> you honor -> he honors -> we honor -> you honor -> they honor

eat -> I eat -> you eat -> he eats -> we eat -> you eat -> they eat

give -> I give -> you give -> he will give -> we will give -> you will give -> they will give

All that remains is to correctly determine the conjugation. Go ahead…

Step 3. Determine the correct verb conjugation

If at Step 1 we got an unstressed ending, then we will determine the initial form of the verb (infinitive). Let us recall that this will be the verb from which this word is derived, answering the questions: “What to do?”, “What to do?”. Example: you write - write (what to do?). Try to determine the infinitive yourself, and to check, see the “Morphological analysis” section below.

We determine the ending of the verb in the initial form (infinitive). And depending on the ending, we attribute our example to the first or second declension and use -eat or -ish, respectively.

The first conjugation includes all verbs except verbs of the second conjugation and heteroconjugated ones.

Verbs of the second conjugation include:

• everything that ends in -it (exceptions: shave, build and lay).
• 4 exception words in -at: hear, breathe, hold, drive;
• 7 exception words for -et: look, see, hate, offend, endure, depend, twirl.

stressed endings (except for the exceptions described above), it is worth using the 3rd person plural form of this verb to check (what are they doing?).

• If the ending corresponds to the second conjugation, namely -at or -yat, the 2nd person singular verb will end in -ish.

knocking - knocking, sniffling - sniffling, screaming - screaming.

• If the ending corresponds to the first conjugation, namely: -ut or -yut, the 2nd person singular verb will end in -eat.

break - break, pour - pour, burn - burn.

How to avoid getting scammed?

Scams are often hidden under the guise of vacancies for typists. You are asked to submit an insurance premium that supposedly guarantees that you will do the job well. Or they ask you to pay for training, sending source materials, etc. In general, they lure money out under any pretext. Do not agree to such conditions and do not pay anything.

There are sites where you will supposedly be given tasks to type texts from audio and video files, but when withdrawing money they will ask for bank card information (including confidential ones) or require you to pay a fee to process the payment. This is also a scam - don’t pay anything.

How to learn to write texts and make money from it

Tatyana Travkina, copywriter of the eTXT exchange, wrote an article specifically for Netology about what a good text is and how to make money on writing skills.

The ability to write high-quality articles is increasingly required not only by students or journalists, but also by bloggers or people who want to make money from it. To achieve results in the field of copywriting - writing custom texts - you need to develop every day, cover a large amount of information and skillfully apply the rules of the Russian language in practice.

Rules for writing texts for websites

To write interesting articles on websites, there are rules that must be followed to create relevant and informative content. They have their own characteristics:

• Remember structure: heading, subheadings and bullet points. Such text, divided by the author into meaningful blocks with names that open paragraphs or blocks, is much easier and more enjoyable to read: it is easier to understand the meaning.
• In the introduction, reveal the whole essence of the material so that the reader, having glanced at the first paragraph, becomes interested in the information that is offered to him.
• Choose a specific style, taking into account the target audience of the site. The reaction of readers directly depends on the style features of the article.
• Don't forget about literacy: mistakes or inappropriate use of slang words will only turn off the audience.
• Remember to be unique. The reader must understand that the information offered is unique: this is caused by the original presentation of the material and a unique view of the situation.

How to make money on content exchanges

Learning the rules of writing quality articles is only the first step to making money through the implementation of acquired knowledge.

For this purpose, there are special content exchanges where you can earn money by completing article writing tasks.

While you are a beginner and have not yet acquired regular customers, you can gain ratings by selling your articles in a ready-made content store. That is, this is a store based on copywriting exchanges, where the customer can buy ready-made text for the site.

A significant advantage of such resources, where you can sell ready-made articles, is the guarantee that the chance of being deceived is reduced to zero: security is guaranteed by the resource.

Content exchange requirements for articles

Placing articles for sale on content exchanges requires compliance with certain conditions. This is necessary to successfully pass the moderation of the article and allow it to be included in the store’s “showcase.”

Do not forget that there are many such exchanges, but they are all guided by approximately the same principles. For example, this is what the requirements of the popular exchange eTXT look like:

• Uniqueness of the material. The article must be unique (from 80%), so it must be checked for uniqueness on a special resource, and if it is high, the text will be posted in the store.
• Subject of the article. The material of the article must fully correspond to its title.
• Structure. The article must comply with generally accepted standards for writing texts: the presence of an introduction, main part and conclusion. The article should not look like a solid wall of text; it should be divided into paragraphs that need to be titled.

How to select topics so that articles are in demand

Posting an article for sale is not enough: it also needs to be of interest to the buyer.

The article must be relevant and unique.

Problems can be avoided if you choose your topic carefully. Analyzing search queries, reading relevant articles and familiarizing yourself with current trends will definitely lead to success. You should also choose a topic in accordance with your own preferences, so that writing an article does not turn into torture.

How much can you earn by selling articles?

The main question that worries newly minted copywriters is: how much can you earn by writing texts. This point is quite ambiguous, and the lion’s share of income depends on the ability to teach your material not only to the reader, but also to the customer.

In any case, your earnings depend on your productivity and ability to be in trend: whether you write and sell 100 articles in a month or one is up to you.

In the end, you can take a copywriting course and then register on an exchange, for example, on eTXT, after which it will be much easier to sell your articles and make money from them.

How to make more money from transcription?

• Learn to process complex recordings: negotiations, dialogues, court hearings, where several people speak and you need to accurately reproduce all the lines. This kind of work pays more money.
• Learn programs to improve audio quality. This will help you decrypt faster.
• There are programs and websites that recognize speech automatically and provide its recording in text form. Of course, they are not 100% accurate and need to be checked. However, this allows for increased productivity.
• Train your hearing and typing speed. These skills will come in handy.
• Look for regular customers. They will ensure constant loading and increase earnings.
• Find out what time codes are and how to indicate them, how to correctly format and edit texts. This will increase the value of your services to customers and the cost of work.

We figured out what kind of income transcription on the Internet can bring and how much money you can realistically earn by typing. All you have to do is find suitable vacancies and try your hand at this field.

Author: Sergey Antropov (KadrofID: 5) Added: 09/15/2020 at 16:34

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