What the work involves

You receive batches of Hindi audio — conversational, read, telephonic, or field-recorded — and produce verbatim transcripts that hold up to review. Much of the material is code-switched: speakers move between Hindi and English mid-sentence, and the guidelines will dictate whether an English word gets Devanagari or Roman script, how numerals and dates are written, and what to do with fillers, false starts, laughter, and overlapping speech. Beyond the first pass, you will review and correct other transcribers' output, add metadata and contextual notes (speaker turns, audio quality flags, dialect or register observations), and flag segments that the guidelines do not cover cleanly.

Guidelines change. A project coordinator may revise the romanisation rule or the tagging convention two weeks in, and you are expected to apply the new version going forward without silently reverting to habit. Written feedback on where the spec is ambiguous or where the tooling slows you down is part of the deliverable, not a courtesy.

What the platform screens for

micro1 runs an AI-led interview before any human contact. Expect it to test native-level Hindi comprehension across registers — Khari Boli, Bhojpuri- or Awadhi-inflected speech, Hyderabadi and Bombay Hindi, formal news register — and your ability to describe concrete transcription decisions rather than assert accuracy in the abstract. Prior AI work is explicitly not required; documented transcription experience with difficult audio is what carries weight. Be ready to name tools you have used, describe your turnaround rate on an hour of messy audio, and explain how you handle a word you genuinely cannot make out.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, contractor engagement, async in practice — batches come with milestones rather than shifts.
  • Volume is project-driven and can be uneven; treat it as a supplementary or flexible-hours engagement unless a coordinator tells you otherwise.
  • Requires a quiet workspace, reliable internet, decent headphones, and comfortable Devanagari typing (InScript, Google Input, or equivalent).
  • The $20–36/hr band is what has been observed on this listing, not a guaranteed rate; placement within it tracks experience and task type.