Per-audio-minute rates, gear requirements, and payout terms for every verified transcription and captioning platform — the category where the billing unit decides your real wage.
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Open applications and weekly payouts — the standard entry point for transcription.
29 platforms listed, including 5 that cover transcription & captioning as a secondary category.
GoTranscript (founded 2005, GoTranscript Limited, UK-registered with US Delaware presence) is a global 100%-human transcription…
Official page advertises 'Earn up to $1.75 per minute' with language examples 'From $0.65' per audio/video minute; pay varies by language demand, difficulty
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout — GoTranscript's own guide states 'There's no minimum amount…
AmberScript (Amberscript Group; offices in Amsterdam and Hannover; 100+ employees, 25 nationalities) is a transcription and subtitling…
Rate not published — see the full review
per audio/video minute
Babbletype (20+ years old, 10+ million minutes transcribed) is a transcription, translation, and content-analysis firm serving the market…
Rate not published — see the full review
per audio/video minute
GoTranscript (founded 2005, GoTranscript Limited, UK-registered with US Delaware presence) is a global 100%-human transcription…
Official page advertises 'Earn up to $1.75 per minute' with language examples 'From $0.65' per audio/video minute; pay varies by language demand, difficulty
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout — GoTranscript's own guide states 'There's no minimum amount…
LILT (San Francisco, founded 2015 by Spence Green and John DeNero; $92.5M raised) recruits paid freelance 'AI Data Experts' through…
Rarely published: 4 of 447 live Ashby postings state pay ($20/hr AI Training Contributor, $15-18/hr, $12-15/hr gaming coordinator, $10-15/hr)
per task · min payout Not published - compensation is issued within 15 days of completed work through…
LingoTribe was a voice-data platform by Mundo AI Inc.
No per-task rates are published; the official FAQ requires recorded conversations of at least 10 minutes to qualify for payment
per task · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Standalone remote-job board branded 'mediacube gigs - Paid Creator Opportunities', run on a subdomain of mediacube.io, the…
Per-gig published ranges, mostly per approved hour of footage: POV capture $5-15; multi-cam action $10-30; biometric fitness $20-50; gaming capture $5-20
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published - the landing page claims 'reliable weekly payouts' while job…
Collaborate is the public contributor portal of Shaip, a Louisville, Kentucky-founded AI training-data company that in February 2026 became…
Per approved task, project-by-project: tracked October 2026 openings concentrate on Indian-language voice work at Rs 200-500/hour
per task · min payout Not published - the portal claims 'Weekly payouts' and 'transparent rates'
Contributor network of a Danish B2B speech-data company, Spire Light ApS (CVR/VAT 44262509, Ingrid Marievej 49, 2500 Valby, Denmark - VAT…
Not published - 'This page does not quote a current pay range'; the only figure on the site is an illustrative 'a batch pays $6 if accepted'.
per task · min payout Not published - payment runs per Order through unnamed third-party processors
3Play Media runs a patented Global Linguist Marketplace of remote contract work in transcription, captioning, subtitling, dubbing, audio…
Unpublished officially — pay is a per-project, per-minute rate with weekly paychecks
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout is published; pay arrives weekly as a paycheck covering the…
Allegis Transcription (a Veritext Legal Solutions company, founded 1996) hires US-based independent-contractor transcriptionists to…
Third-party roundups report roughly $0.45-$1.73 per audio minute depending on project turnaround (entry levels cited around $0.75-$0.85)
per audio hour · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published on official pages
Audio Transcription Center (ATC), founded 1966 and based in Boston (47 Winter Pl), is a boutique transcription service for academia…
Glassdoor estimates $17-$25/hour company-wide ($19-$28/hour for Boston, 2026); DollarSprout and Gig Hustlers roundups cite $17-$22/hour with weekly pay.
per audio hour · min payout No minimum payout is published; third-party sources (FlexJobs, DollarSprout
BLEND (GetBlend LTD., Israel; formerly One Hour Translation, founded 2008) runs a vetted global freelancer community on app.getblend.com…
Per-project rates shown on the project page before acceptance; no public rate card - a Reddit datum cites 11 US cents/word for German legal translation (2025)
per task · min payout $20 (2,000 credits) per the help center
CastingWords (US company, in operation since 2005) is a crowd transcription marketplace whose freelance 'Workshop' community handles…
8.5 cents to a bit over $1 per audio minute for transcription (official FAQ, updated January 2025), bonus-multiplied by quality grade: grade 5 = base pay
per audio/video minute · min payout $1 — you can request a PayPal transfer once your balance is at least $1 and you…
Daily Transcription (19+ years in business, 100% US-based) hires work-from-home freelance transcriptionists, captioners, subtitlers…
Official careers-page rates are quoted per hour of recorded material: $45-$66 for general transcription, $75-$120 for legal/medical
per audio hour · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published; the official FAQ states D.T.
Ditto Transcripts (formerly Transcription Outsourcing, LLC; Denver, CO — CEO Ben Walker) is a US-only transcription company serving legal…
Official ranges: $0.80-$1.10 per audio minute for legal, law enforcement, academic, financial, and general business work
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout is published; contractors are paid on a fixed semi-monthly…
EScribers (est.
Rate not published — see the full review
per task
FocusForward (focusfwd.com) is the corporate site of Focus Forward, the same Wayne, PA-based market-research services firm (founded 2003 by…
About $0.40-$0.85 per audio minute per third-party reviews and roundups
per audio/video minute · min payout No payout threshold is published on the official site
GMR Transcription Services, Inc.
Pay is per audio minute, based on number of speakers, audio quality, turnaround time, and special instructions (official job posting)
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Happy Scribe is a Barcelona-based AI transcription/subtitling SaaS that also runs a human linguist network for proofreading, transcription…
Official pages do not publish linguist rates; third-party reports and transcriber Reddit threads cite roughly $0.25–$0.75 per audio minute (about $0.25…
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Quicktate (California-based, established 2008; sister service iDictate dates to 1999 and the pair report transcribing billions of words)…
Official rates: $0.0025 per word (1/4 cent) for Quicktate general transcription and $0.0050 per word (1/2 cent) for Quicktate medical and iDictate work
per task · min payout No minimum payout is published; the official Financial Matters article states…
Rev offers freelance transcription, captioning, subtitle translation, and legal transcription opportunities.
Official per audio/video minute: transcriptionists $0.40–$1.10; captioners $0.54–$1.10; legal transcriptionists $0.55–$2.00+
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published on the freelancers page
SpeakWrite (in business since 1999; 60,000+ clients) is a 100% human-powered voice-to-text transcription service for law enforcement, child…
Official FAQ: standard base pay is one-half cent per word ($0.005), with many shifts offering a 10% bonus on top plus other incentives
per task · min payout No minimum payout is published; payment is made twice per month by direct…
Speechpad (founded 2008) is a human transcription, captioning, and translation service that uses a crowd-sourced workforce with web-based…
Official: $0.25-$1.00 per audio minute for transcription (entry-level to experienced), $0.30-$1.00/min for captioning
per audio/video minute · min payout No minimum payout threshold is stated
Tigerfish (a US transcription company in business since 1989) hires freelance transcribers as independent contractors to render a wide…
Unpublished officially; third-party reviews report about $0.03-$0.04 per line (~$0.005 per word)
per task · min payout No minimum payout is published anywhere on the official site
Freelance transcription platform offering short audio and video transcription clips, with additional pathways into legal, medical, and…
Official: starting at $15–$22 per audio hour, Special Teams (Medical/Specialty Styles) $60–$70+ per audio hour, average ~$250 monthly earnings.
per audio hour · min payout Official WorkHub help docs state you can withdraw once your balance reaches at…
TransPerfect is the world's largest privately held language-services and business-services company (founded 1992; 170+ languages; 10,000+…
Rate not published — see the full review
at a project rate
Ubiqus is a French professional language-services group (founded 1988/operating 35+ years; 300 expert writers; ISO 9001:2015; joined the…
Rate not published — see the full review
per task
Transcription work converts audio into text: interviews, meetings, podcasts, legal proceedings, medical dictation. The critical fact is the billing unit — you are paid per audio minute or hour, not per working hour. Beginners need four to six hours to transcribe one audio hour, so a "$60/audio-hour" headline is really $10–15/hr until speed develops.
Every transcription and captioning platform here comes with its advertised per-audio rates, gear requirements (foot pedal, headphones, transcription software), entry tests, and payout terms. Where platforms advertise an "up to" rate, we show it next to the realistic range so you can compare honestly.
Specializations pay more: legal and medical transcription command premium rates but require training and gear; general transcription is open to strong typists with a good pair of headphones.
Advertised rates cluster around $0.30–$0.60 per audio minute ($18–36/audio hour). At beginner speed (4–6× audio length), effective pay is roughly minimum wage; experienced transcribers reach 2–3× audio length and correspondingly higher wages.
For most general-transcription platforms, no — software playback controls suffice. Legal and high-volume work sometimes expects a pedal. Gear requirements are listed per platform.
Transcription produces a text document; captioning produces time-aligned text embedded in the video. Captioning pays more per minute and requires more precise timing work.
Almost all do — typically a grammar quiz plus a sample file. Application requirements, including the test format, are documented on each platform page.
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