CrowdSurf Transcription and Captioner Test and Application Process

What is CrowdSurf ?

 

Become a CrowdSurf Captioner and Transcriptionist and get paid to complete HIT Tasks : Human Intelligent Tasks by correcting and editing texts. This tutorial will walk you through the sign up process, how to pass the test, and how to set up a Work market account and join the CrowdSurf labor workforce.

 

CrowdSurf is a dedicated community of freelance transcriptionists working to create video captions for deaf, hard of hearing and second language viewers.

 

They 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 needs your help to transcribe online media, Join Us Today !

 

Your Benefits :

• Instant Income : By day's end, you can have cash to spend.
  
• Easy Tasks : Most HIT Jobs are very easy.
• 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.
• Fulfillment : Make a Difference !

What are the Required Skills ?

• Detail oriented, talented and able to speak, read and write fluently in English.
• Must have a PC or Mac
• Reliable Internet Connection
• Basic typing Skills necessary
• Great Listening Skills
• Excellent Proofreading Skills
• Good judgment and Problem Solving Skills
• Team Player attitude - we're looking for positive influences on the CrowdSurf community !
  

 

Get Started with CrowdSurf :

 

First you go to crowdsurfwork.com. Is CrowdSurf A Good Fit For You ? Do you enjoy writing and reading are you looking to make a little extra cash on the side or maybe you are a student who needs flexible work ? We want to work with you ! Click on the below LEARN MORE Button. 

1.Sign-Up on Work Market

 

CrowdSurf uses Work Market to hire and pay all CrowdSurf freelancers. You'll join CrowdSurf via Work Market, and work with us on our private editing platform, the CrowdSurfWork Platform. It's easy to get started.

 

 The Work Market team will review your Profile and tax information. This typically, takes less than 24 hours. If there's an issue, Please Contact their support team.

 

Set up your Payment Method, you can choose from Direct Deposit, PayPal, and more !

 

2.Join CrowdSurf

 

Work Market uses recruitment groups to connect you with employers offering freelance work. Once your Work Market account is set up, apply to Join CrowdSurf as a new CrowdSurf transcriber, review the guidelines, and take a brief assessment to join the CrowdSurf group.

 

 3.Start Crowd Surfing ! 

 

Once you've passed the assessments, we will create a new account for you on the CrowdSurfWork Platform. This usually takes 3-5 business days. When your account is ready we will send login instructions to your Work Market Email.

 

Click GET STARTED INTERNATIONAL Button.

 

What is the Pay ?

 

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 $0.03-$0.20 per media minute plus additional bonus rates.

 

 

Sign Up on the Work Market :

 

We're going to go to the top we're going to to click Join as an individual sign up for Work Market. So,put it in your First Name, Last Name Email and your password read the Terms & Conditions and click Register. Now, Says thank you from Crowd-Surf.

 

Next Steps :

 

You've completed the signup process and should receive a confirmation email shortly.
Please check your Spam Folder if you don't receive an email from hi@myworkmarket.com or hi@wminvites.com in the next few minutes.I've also received an email saying please confirm your work market account. So I'm gonna make sure to confirm my account. So,now I'm going to log in my Email and my Password that I created earlier and LOGIN.

 

Setting Up Work Market Profile :

 

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 then use the drop down list to select your postal code. Okay, I do not know what I'm supposed to put there under job title it says use the drop down list So I'm gonna put in a captioner. I'm going to click Continue and see what happens Great you are ready to search and apply assignments. So they there have banking information, tax information. You can Just click Get Started.

 

Joining the CrowdSurf Labor Cloud :

 

I'm go back to that Email. I got with a labor cloud Invitation. I'm click on View Labor cloud because that's what I want to connect to from work market.com. So I was sent a link to this group this is the Crowd-Surf transcribers US/Canada workforce group. That says there you do not meet all the requirements for joining this labor cloud but you can apply you will apply as an individual worker so before I click apply I want to add in these missing requirements the first one is CrowdSurf 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. 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. 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 there. 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. So, you can see I have that there 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. 

 

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 there's four hundred and thirty four members of this group and this was created just in July this is quite new actually.

 

Crowd Surf Transcription Test/Assignment :

 

So, now let's click a take test. First how did you find us were you referred by anyone next question now they say please be sure to familiarize yourself with the following resources before you proceed to the next question we've got the Crowd-Surf general guidelines technology glossary most common requirements. I'm going to open up the guidelines and the glossary and the common requirements and then they've got 18 questions for us to review.

 

CrowdSurf General Guidelines for Captioning/Transcribing :

 

Let's click on the full general guidelines most common requirements clean verbatim transcription your transcripts provide 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. I'm make sure to spell like an American transcript format beginning of HIT end of HIT always capitalize the first letter of the first word in a HIT.even if it's not the start of a sentence. Every task is known as Human Intelligent task and a End of HIT. Always close a 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 a HIT with a dash (- or --) or ellipses (....). You can 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 for example if you have to write all right you they don't want you just they want you to spell like this not. This will help you how to correctly spell these certain words we've also get accepted slang you can put these sorts of things but not this I keep this open while you're doing the test the next section was the Gardner Glossary 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. 

 

 There's more and the there's a table of contents you've got full general guidelines the glossary tech glossary. There's a lot of resources there they have some training all sorts of stuff but I just want to kind of get into the test and see what it's all about. I'm going to go back there. I'm going to select I have reviewed the CrowdSurf and glossary and now I'm going to click Next Question alright 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 there transcribe the audio content exactly as heard but leaving out all these kinds of stuff that doesn't really help transcribe exactly what is said but leaving out this sort of stuff there next questions 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. 

 

 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 there they show you when there's a speaker change imagine that it was spoken like this speaker 1 speaker 2 etc. When you transcribe it what they want you to do is for a speaker change to put in these double arrows there and then a space and then you continue. 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 directions correctly of how to transcribe this video. So, once you're done you can click on next question. 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 transcriptions 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 HIT. How should this be transcribed access the glossary there. 

 

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 just 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 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

 

Transcription Test Results :

Great it's congratulations you pass this test. So, let's look at my results 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. As you can see there fulfilled requirements I have passed the Crowd-Surfed transcription assessment the only missing requirement is the certification which was my ID. 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 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 etc.

I Hope you understand how to apply for CrowdSurf.com and details about its Captioner Test and Application process.If you have any doubt about the details which is discussed above means put in the comments section.I will try to Clarify your doubts.Thanks for reading My article.Happy Earning!!