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Transcribe the words shown in an image - $0.05
Underpaid
Unrated
Approved
$2.77 / hour
00:01:05 / completion time
Pros
Sometimes they're not difficult to do. For example, if the image isn't a data plate at all, you can simply mark it as not being a data plate and make an easy 5 cents.Cons
Only pays 5 cents apiece.6 minute(!) timer for every HIT, regardless of complexity.
A lot of writing required for some of them. Some serial and model numbers you have to transcribe can be extremely long. For example, over 40 digits long apiece, for a total of 80 digits transcribed (not even counting the manufacture info)... Again, for 5 cents.
Some images are unable to be read in the thumbnail provided, meaning they have to be opened in a new tab, where they are often extremely large, which means you'll be switching back and forth from that tab to the HIT to try and transcribe it within the time limit.
You can't type in the name of the manufacterer manually, but instead of to select it from a drop down list, which is very time consuming. The list is also poorly set up, as it goes ABC-ect-ABC, meaning that if you go through of the (let's say) letter J, you won't have seen every manufacturer that starts with that letter, because there are 2 separate lists of manufacturers that start with J, divided by another 26 groups of letters in between. And don't bother using your arrow keys to try to traverse faster, because they cause you to jump all over the place in the list if you use them. Your best bet is to try and press the key on your keyboard of the first letter of the brand you want, and hope you don't skip it accidentally while trying to go through them all looking for the one you need. That's assuming it's even on there, which often times it's not, in which case you have to choose "Other manufacturer", after having wasted all that time verifying if they even had the one you need listed or not.
Often unclear as to what constitutes as a data plate, and what is or isn't considered legible. For example, I had one of my submissions rejected for the following reason:
"Sorry, your HIT was rejected due to the following errors: - You labeled this image as "legible" while the correct answer is that it is "not legible"
On these data plates, you fill in the information of the manufacturer, the serial number, and the model number that's listed on them, and mark them as missing if they're not there or can't be read. Seems clear enough. However, this was one I submitted, the plate had bits of the serial number and model number torn off, making them unreadable. The manufacturer's logo was still visible (it was Train, if you're wondering), so I filled I selected that the image was a data plate, it was legible (which 95% of it was), filled out the manufacturer info, and selected missing for the model and serial numbers.
And then the HIT came back as rejected for being ineligible. Which begs the question, if MTURK Prod feels it was not legible, and knew it was not legible, why submit it to Workers to work on in the first place? It's even stranger, because I've in the past submitted OTHER data plate HITs for them where only the manufacturer info was visible, and they were paid no problem.
Advice to Requester
Biggest thing is these HITs need to higher paying, and they need to have a longer timer. 6 minutes is just enough time often to submit the HIT by the skin of your teeth, considering how complex some of them can be.I also think it needs to be clearer what exactly constitutes as legible or not, since that's clearly an issue of contention.
Dec 9, 2021 | 3 workers found this helpful.
bugeekman Proficient Worker
Transcribe a short video - $0.12
Unrated
Unrated
Rejected (Unfair)
$21.60 / hour
00:00:20 / completion time
- HIT Rejected
Pros
Cons
Rejected for no audio despite there being audio.That's just not true. I am quite sure this particular 12 second video had absolutely NO audio. The audio slider was greyed out. These guys probably auto reject if you mark videos as no audio.
4th rejection from these guys. 2 from marking no audio including this one. 2 from "too many transcription errors"
Have done about 300-400 HITs for these guys. Learned to not submit one with no audio or audible speech just now. About half of their HITs are not worth it. Noisy background, mumbling people, masked mumbling people, heavy accents.
This one requester makes up half of my total rejections. I'd only do their stuff if the HIT itself seems okay and there's nothing else in queue
Sep 4, 2021 | 4 workers found this helpful.
Niets New Reviewer
Transcribe the words shown in an image - $0.05
Underpaid
Unrated
Rejected (Some)
$4.50 / hour
00:00:40 / completion time
- HIT Rejected
Pros
When it is a legible plate, you only need to fill in 2 our of the 3 fields, making it a really fast job.Cons
There are pictures that you just don't know what to do, and you'll probably get a rejection if done wrong.The instructions don't contemplate all the scenarios.
There are cases where 0 and O are really similar and if you make a typo = rejected.
Jun 28, 2021 | 4 workers found this helpful.