Transcription Supervisor jobs in Kochi - DISHARI SKILL

Overview

Appen is a global company with more than 20 years experience in data annotation, collection, evaluation and transcription and a track record for successfully enhancing image, speech, text and video data for use in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Job description: The successful candidate will supervise a Malayalam transcription project, working with a team of remote transcribers, monitoring their throughput and assisting with quality control.

Responsibilities

Training: Translation, localization and adaptation of transcription guidelines and other project-specific training materials

Recruitment: Screening and recruiting new transcribers depending on project needs and/or to increase resource availability

Crowd management: Communication with transcribers and addressing all inquiries coming from them

Project management: Tracking and meeting project deliverables such as expected transcription throughput hours and minimum quality standards defined for the project

Quality management: Being in close contact with quality checkers to ensure their work reflects the company and project standards

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Must be a native speaker of Malayalam

Good working knowledge of English

Efficiency and attention to detail

Good computer and typing skills

Must have intermediate skills in Microsoft Office (including Excel) and Google sheets

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Project management experience

Translation or other language work experience

Knowledge of the local popular culture in the target language

Project start date and length:

The successful candidate would be able to work between 30-40 hours a week, Monday to Friday during 9-5 business hours

Availability to work full-time will be considered an advantage