Do you listen to them with a headset? I bought a pair of full ear enclosed for transcribing and it helped a good bit. There are also programs you can run the audio through if you are doing one where you need to DL it. They can remove hissing/static and such. I am not big on transcribing though but if you are serious there is an ebook for 3 buck that will really help. I bought a copy and it is really thorough. If you want the link to it let me know and I will find it on amazon for you and post the link. There is a link somewhere here on the forum for it too already as well I will see if I can find that post.
Do you all realize that the Mayan calender did not include leap years?? ...so in all reality if the world was going to end, it would have ended already.
If you find a post by Naturegirl, you should be able to find it. She is the one who wrote the book. Very good if you are a beginning transcriber.
here is the link for the post about it. http://mturkforum.com/showthread.ph...shorter-version&highlight=transcription+ebook
Thanks. I do that for the same reason. Thank goodness I can handle a few rejections, but it TICKS me off!
so i'm chatting with a friend in australia... apparently whatever happens on the 21st, it's not a sufficient excuse for missing work...
I think I like CrowdSurf's transcriptions instead of ClariTrans. The video makes it a lot easier on CrowdSurf.
I wasn't aware you need a qual. I see them posted but they get snatched up really fast. They used to be easier to get but I guess more people are going for them now.
I have work tomorrow, and my kids both have school. That being said, if the world ends, its supposed to be at 6:11 EST, so I'll just be on my way to work anyways. Personally, I just think a bunch of idiots are gonna do something stupid. I'm more worried about riots and things like that.
The Mayans actually had three calendars: one that was essentially a solar calendar, another that was a religious calendar, and a third calendar that was used for keeping historical records. This third calendar is the only one that's relevant to some people trying to predict the end of the universe. This long-count calendar isn't a calendar as much as a counting system. You know how we use a base-10 counting system? (10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.) The Mayans used a modifeid base-20 counting system for keeping track of days - the second cycle went up to 18 rather than 20. So they tracked days in cycles of 20, 360, 7200, 144000, 2880000, etc. We're coming to the end of one of the 144,000 day cycles. The concept of leap-years is irrelevant to this calendar system, because it's not based on solar years, simply on pure math. I've got no opinion of whether the calculated date of Dec 21, 2012 as the end of the cycle is accurate. But if it is inaccurate, it's for reasons that have nothing to do with leap years.
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Are you talking about the ones where you review video? They post them for different lenghts of time I believe.
Seriously. I refresh mturk and even if it's in the first few, they are already gone by the time I click on it. I loved doing the 40, 20, 15, and 10 cent one's all at once.
reminds me of the whole Y2K mess. when it didnt happen they came up with reasons it might happen later
Yeah. Those. I think I saw once you mentioned once you did them. They've really easy/good pay but they are snatched up ridiculously fast nowadays.