Nick Zhu China Local time: 04:33 Member (Feb 2012) English to Chinese + ...
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Feb 7
Just happen to see this post. A client is asking me to do a transcription from Chinese to English for a audio worth of 60 minutes. I do not how much I should charge for this type of job.
Anyone knows?
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Chun-yi Chen United States Local time: 13:33 Member (2006) English to Chinese
Your project has two parts
Feb 7
Hi Nick,
Transcription only involves transcribing what is being said to the written form. What your client wants is actually transcription+translation.
If I were you, I would charge hourly rate for the number of hours I spent on transcribing the audio content in Chinese. Then I would bill the translation part based on my per word rate using either source or target word count agreed upon before I start the job.
While 60 minutes of audio recording may not sound like a lot, it could turn into many hours of work based on my limited experience with such type of project.
Good luck!
Chun-yi
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Nick Zhu China Local time: 04:33 Member (Feb 2012) English to Chinese + ...
thanks
Feb 7
I didn't expect such prompt a reply.
Thank you for the advice, Chun-yi.
It helps.
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