Castingwords Transcribers - Questions and Answers

[Whimsy]

...to the person that has to edit my jobs from the artist.

i'm so stinking sorry

last time i did these, an editor put all the fillers back in. so i thought 'well, better keep them in there because of what happened last time'.

ugh. heard from cw. my bad.

[ryanap]

WOW, holy crap.

It looks like it probably was a word wrap thing. I'm working on something unrelated to CW or transcription right now, and I've noticed some very strange things happening as I try to use text that I wrote in notepad. Line breaks seemingly entered somehow (?!) even though I never would have broken the line in any of those places. This kind of blow my mind. I can't be completely sure that this happened with CW, as everything looked solid in the "preview" area in the HIT itself, but clearly something strange is going on here.

This is a new laptop, but I've never seen something like this happen with notepad before. I thought notepad was supposed to be the kind of spare formatting?!

VERY frustrating.

[runs off to tinker]


OMG!

So there's a bug in the current notepad that inserts all kinds of line breaks if you save with word wrap on. And so instead of having a document with minimal formatting, it made it as if I had inserted all those breaks myself!

Saving with word wrap turned off (but not manual line breaks inserted anywhere) results in perfectly clean text.

Seriously, just kill me. Obviously this is what I get for upgrading my ancient machine. Maybe I should go back to being several OS releases behind the rest of the world.

[waves the white flag]


However, thank you for the great responses everyone. I got some pretty great tips out of all that, in any event.

I tried incredibly hard to make sure that was a quality transcript, too. All that work, only to be foiled by a computer bug.

[Whimsy]

I'm glad you got it figured out.

If....you like doing transcription work but your score for CW has been dropped below 80...well you can write to support and let them know it was a new computer, you weren't aware of some upgrade/bug issues, and that you'd like to try again (knowing how to prevent the previous mistake).

That being said, if you don't like transcription -- just chalk it up as a learning experience. Congrats on figuring it out =)

[nobody]

lmao...same shit happened to me - back when I figured out what open/closed/other places to look for my tickets happened.

Had it been a bat, it would've bitten me.

For future reference for anyone else: The link for closed tickets is not one of the tabs up top. It's on the right-hand side of the support site when you sign in.
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I was working on the bulk HITs, and I was wishing like crazy that I had MS Word. I could have used a macro. Now, everyone uses different words as filler. Since this thread shows up on the Google, I won't put the exact filler used in these, but I typed it at least 137 times, easy. o.0

[Whimsy]

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why...would a self-professed newbie (per transcriber's notes)...tackle a 21 minute audio right out of the gate? I am genuinely baffled by this.

[Scott]

Heck I am an "oldie" on CW and I only do ones under 2 mins still. Still protecting my PPT score as if it wa s anew born baby.

But now they have Scores for grading, approving, editting, and transacribing.

[Whimsy]

The short ones are my absolute favorites to do. Sure, it takes the same amount of time to accept, check audio, download audio, get started each and every time (under a minute for the process)--- but those long ones are intimidating to me. I also like protecting my ppt and the more transcriptions I do, the better my overall average will be. Might dive into the long ones when the house is all quiet starting next week.

[4oh4error]

I'm confused as to how the bonuses work? I have done 3 transcriptions, first was graded 7, second was graded an 8 by the editor but I still got a 7, and third is up right now for grading. I've gotten the emails saying I got $.xx bonus, but it's not showing up. All I see is the base pay. Am I confusing how the bonuses actually work?

[Whimsy]

No, you're not. mturk doesn't make it easy to distinguish your bonus pay from your dashboard - except for the "bonus" line near the top.

And that happens with the downgrades - some editors' grades are given more weight and their grades stick, while newer graders will give a grade and you'll get a little bit lower (like 8 to a 7, graded 9 but paid for an 8). It mostly happens when you first start, but as your stats improve and your consistency is proven, higher grades stick.