New MTurk Transcription Review Tool!

No More Guesswork In Transcription Review HITs! You no longer have to decide if a transcript is “Fraud”, “Poor”, “Good”, or “Perfect”. Now you can simply count the errors and our sophisticated new review tool will do all of the heavy lifting for you! See the new Training Guide to help you navigate [...]

New In-Tool Spell-Checker!

A brand new tool to help you submit perfect HITs in MTurk every time! Now you’ll never have to worry about typos again because CrowdSurf’s new spell-checker will catch them for you! Follow these three easy steps for perfect transcripts: Type out your verbatim transcript. Once you’re done, click Submit. Our [...]

2014-02-03T23:15:33-08:00Categories: Amazon MT, Mturk|

New Speaker Change Button!

Now you don’t have to copy and paste the double chevron >>! When you are editing full-length transcripts you can use our new handy button to insert speaker changes for you! You now have two options: Sometimes you need to add, remove or change speaker changes in the transcripts. Now you [...]

2014-02-01T00:03:51-08:00Categories: Uncategorized|

New QC Checkboxes!

Now more options to help you score sentences in QC Transcripts tasks! When rating a sentence as “Good” you can now select among these additional options 1.  Minor Missing Word This includes stutters, repetitive words, or homophones.  Example: ‘Hello, my name is’ should have been ‘Hel, hello, my name is’ ‘a’ should have [...]

2014-01-31T19:13:57-08:00Categories: Crowd Virtualizer, QC|

FAQs Are Here!

Dear CrowdSurf Transcribers, We realize that at times you may have questions you need answers to immediately, so we have put together an FAQ for both Mechanical Turk and Crowd Virtualizer!    If you can not find what you need in our FAQs, then please feel free to contact us. In [...]

2014-01-27T00:11:04-08:00Categories: Uncategorized|

Bonus On Every MTurk HIT Extended…

Dear CrowdSurf Transcribers, You have exceeded our expectations once again! Our most recent bonus offer was so successful that we have completed the latest large batch of MTurk work in record time – this is our fastest turnaround yet! Your hard work makes online media more accessible to the hearing impaired and [...]

This Week’s MTurk Bonus Calculator

Weekly Volume Bonus Opportunity Across All MTurk Transcription HITs!! Here is how it works: Earn $1 the same as $0.02 per hit daily bonus when you have 50 approved transcription HITs (prorated above 50 HITs). Achieve daily bonus on any 3 days of the week, and earn prorated bonus on  ALL approved transcription [...]