What exactly does English speech annotation work do? How much is the salary? People who have done it say this

An epidemic has affected everyone's income to a certain extent. Some people have lost their jobs or had their salaries reduced, and some people's business has been bleak or they have stopped working. There are even strange stories of pilots switching to delivering food, and stewardesses sewing masks together...

As a newly unemployed dog, I have been frantically looking for a job recently, especially a job that allows me to work online.

Then I saw this:

Wow, perfect! I can work at home and practice my English skills. I want to submit my resume! ! !

Then I received the offer and passed the induction training.

Two days later, I quit...

Mainly because the job was essentially an audio cutter, a noise marker.

It really has nothing to do with English, and it is not a translation job like a listening translation or subtitle group as I imagined. Speech-to-text and other things can be done using iFlytek input method speech recognition. There is no technical content and it cannot improve personal abilities. In essence, it is using one's own time and energy in exchange for money. It is a standard cheap labor force. . . .

I’m curious, since machines can do it, why do we need people to do it?

The main job of this part-time job is to cut off the blank space at the beginning and end of the initial audio, and mark the types of noise that appear in the audio content, such as background noise, breathing sounds, knocking sounds, etc. Cough or something like that. This may be difficult for machines, and it's certainly not difficult for humans, but the only difficulty is that there is no measurable standard. When I submitted the task for the first time, the quality control said that there was too much white space before and after the audio and it needed to be redone. So I intercepted the audio close to the sound. After the second submission, the quality inspection said that the cutting was too close and some sounds were cut off. I'm so confused. How should I intercept it? Why is there no unified standard, such as leaving an interval of 0.05 seconds before and after, or uniformly cutting according to the sound waveform diagram? Not having quantifiable acceptance criteria makes it difficult to start.

Then why do we need Chinese people to do the job of converting English speech to text?

Because China has a lot of cheap labor. This should be a job that a foreign company outsources to a domestic company, and it may be transferred to a few hands in the process... The outsourcing company then splits the work and assigns it to individuals through online part-time jobs, which greatly reduces operating costs and risks, and makes a huge profit.

The only advantage of this part-time job is that you can work from home. Because it is an emerging industry, the business volume is large and it is basically not affected by the epidemic. If you stick to it for a long time, your income will be guaranteed.

Doing this job requires patience and concentration. Because noise needs to be marked, the requirements for personal hearing acuity, visual acuity, computer headset equipment, and quietness of the working environment are also relatively high. Interested friends can also try it.

Finally, I would like to give you some suggestions:

1. How to judge whether an online part-time job is reliable?

First, check whether it has clear and measurable acceptance standards and quality inspection standards. Jobs such as dubbing, manual work, and voice annotation lack a measurable acceptance standard. The recruiter can simply say that your work is not up to standard and not pay you.

Secondly, look at whether it has a certain threshold and whether it has technical content. It is not recommended to do a part-time job with zero threshold, such as comment forwarding and so on. If a part-time job has no requirements and restrictions at all, it will definitely attract a large number of people to sign up. The recruiter can just change the place and only do one job. Hammer trading, or keeping wages super low. Jobs with certain technical thresholds have less competition and higher wages.

2. Characteristics of online part-time jobs: low-level positions, mostly hard work, a large number of job seekers, generally lacking in skills, unreliable recruiters, and many scammers.

The current online part-time job market lacks an effective trust mechanism, and trust has become the most urgent problem to be solved.

Due to the impact of the epidemic, the advantages of working from home have been highlighted, and people’s demand for online work has greatly increased.

However, a lack of trust has led to bad money driving out good money in the online job market, rampant opportunism, and excessive buying and selling, resulting in an emerging market with huge potential being wasted!

My ideal online part-time job platform should strictly verify the information of the recruiter, severely punish the scammers, and improve the quality of the buyer's positions. Conduct skill tests and onboarding training for job seekers to improve the professional quality of sellers. Implement a daily salary settlement system for job seekers, and charge a certain deposit from recruiters to avoid wage arrears. Next time I will share such a platform with you.