'Polish to English Transcription' - Rates
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Karolina Wolska
Karolina Wolska
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Nov 16, 2024

I've been asked to quote for 'Polish to English Transcription'.

Having read a couple of the forum entries here, I know that many people have very strong feelings about being offered transcription jobs, but putting that aside, could someone sense check if the rates I'm planning to quote seem reasonable?

I was thinking 30 USD per audio hour for transcription, and then 0.10 USD per word for translation.

Any advice is welcome, particularly if you have some expe
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I've been asked to quote for 'Polish to English Transcription'.

Having read a couple of the forum entries here, I know that many people have very strong feelings about being offered transcription jobs, but putting that aside, could someone sense check if the rates I'm planning to quote seem reasonable?

I was thinking 30 USD per audio hour for transcription, and then 0.10 USD per word for translation.

Any advice is welcome, particularly if you have some experience with Polish-English rates
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Wilsonn Perez Reyes
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Terminology Nov 19, 2024

This is usually called multilanguage (or multilingual) transcription, a 2-step process involving transcription plus translation.

 
Min Xuanping
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Your price is too low. Nov 19, 2024

I charge 3 USD per minute for subtitling in Subtitle Edit or ArcTime because my maximum daily output is 20 minutes. I know I am slow, but 0.1 USD per minute is never acceptable.

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Joanna Rączka
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Polen
Local time: 19:23
Lid 2009
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Transcription definitely too low Nov 25, 2024

Hi!
Audiovisual is charged per minute/per 10 minutes audio. Last year in Poland I had a rate of 200 zł per 10 minutes. This would make 1200 zł per hour, which is around 300$ per hour (not hour of my time though). And that job was transcription only. A Polish agency. As you know, Polish agencies are not among the most generous in the world, so if you have an inquire from a West European or US agency, you can charge more. Anyway, 30$ per hour is way too low. Mind you, transcription is rea
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Hi!
Audiovisual is charged per minute/per 10 minutes audio. Last year in Poland I had a rate of 200 zł per 10 minutes. This would make 1200 zł per hour, which is around 300$ per hour (not hour of my time though). And that job was transcription only. A Polish agency. As you know, Polish agencies are not among the most generous in the world, so if you have an inquire from a West European or US agency, you can charge more. Anyway, 30$ per hour is way too low. Mind you, transcription is really timeconsuming.
Your translation rate seems reasonable, certainly it would be reasonable for a regular translation job, yet for audiovisual you can demand more - it is not a normal text, there are time constraints, you must be more creative to make the translation shorter, so that when the text is spoken it does not take longer than the original. What is the purpose of the translation? Subtitling, dubbing or voiceover?
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jyuan_us
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Lid 2005
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Monolingual transcription takes more time than translating the transcribed script Nov 25, 2024

The transcription part will cost you more time than the translation part. Transcribing one audio minute typically takes 10 minutes of your time, and your 10 minutes is worthy of US$5-6. So, you should quote the transcription task at $300 - $360.

 
Karolina Wolska
Karolina Wolska
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Thank you! Nov 25, 2024

Thank you all! Regarding the purpose of translation, I haven't been given any details beyond them asking for 'Polish to English transcription', so I'm actually not sure how they'd want to use it.

 


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