What the work involves
You receive Danish audio — spontaneous speech, interviews, phone-quality recordings, regional accents — and produce transcripts that hold up as training data. That means more than getting the words down: you follow a style guide that tells you how to handle false starts, filled pauses, overlapping speakers, code-switching into English, numbers, and inaudible segments. Alongside transcription you'll label speech data according to project taxonomies, verify other contributors' output for consistency, and flag places where the guideline is silent or contradicts itself. Contributors who are good at that last part tend to get pulled into schema refinement discussions.
What the platform screens for
micro1 runs an AI-led interview before any task assignment. The screen is built to separate people who genuinely transcribe Danish at a professional level from people who merely speak it. Expect probes on:
- Concrete transcription history — what kind of audio, for whom, at what turnaround, verbatim or clean-read
- Handling of Danish-specific difficulties: reduction and assimilation in fast speech, stød distinctions, Jysk and Bornholmsk features, Copenhagen slang, Danish–English mixing
- Your judgment when a guideline doesn't cover what you're hearing
- Whether you can articulate a decision rule rather than say "I use my ear"
AI-workflow familiarity is a plus, not a gate. Domain depth is the thing being measured.
Logistics
Fully remote, contractor engagement, asynchronous. Work arrives in batches with deadlines rather than fixed shifts, and volume fluctuates with customer demand — treat it as flexible supplementary income rather than a guaranteed weekly load. You'll need a quiet environment, reliable headphones capable of resolving low-quality audio, and a stable connection for browser-based tooling. Observed pay is $24–30/hr; rates are set per project and are not guaranteed.