[DM-MUG] speech to text

[Brandon Carlson]

Mechanical Turk is an Amazon site (It's been around for 6 or 7 years
now) that you can split tasks out and pay folks sitting around on the
internet to do for you. As a worker bee you won't make a lot of bank,
(Tasks go for as little as 10 cents) but it is an option for getting
stuff transcribed.

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

I could see other uses for it for things like testing your corporate
web site for broken links. Put a payment of say, $15 out there for any
users that can find broken links on your site and use the turk as a
replacement for simple link testing. I haven't been to the site for a
long time, so I don't know what's out there. I would be interested in
hearing what types of tasks you could see "outsourcing" to the Turk.

Brandon

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Stuart Thiessen <thiessenstuart at aol.com> wrote:
> Can you explain more?
>
> On Jan 30, 2011, at 08:47 , Brandon Carlson wrote:
>
>> There's also a non software based option. You can put it out on
>> mechanical Turk and have the masses transcribe it for you at a lower
>> rate than transcription services.
>>
>> On Saturday, January 29, 2011, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at herringlaw.com> wrote:
>>> That's right - there's an iPad app - Dragon Dictate - which converts
>>> it -- I'll check and see what else I can find...
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