Appen Butler Hill is in Need of Mandarin Transcriber and Japanese Transcriber

About Appen Butler Hill:

Appen Butler Hill develops high quality speech and language technology solutions namely used in car navigation systems, mobile phones, word processing packages, directory assistance, speaker verification tools and hand-held machine translation devices. Our staff comprises Linguists, IT
professionals and Project Managers who collaborate to produce quality work in over 100 different languages for many of the world’s leading companies.

Mandarin Transcriber (Fluent Speaker)

Position Summary: 

Appen Butler Hill is looking for fluent speakers of Mandarin for a transcription project.

Project Information:

This is for a project for approximately two months. Please register now at http://appenonline.appen.com.au/ and take the Chinese - Mandarin (PRC) Spelling Test.

Note: Please make sure that you add the Mandarin PRC to your Languages under the Account tab. Once you have added it, you will be able to see the Chinese – Mandarin (PRC) Spelling Test under the Qualifications Tab.

Key Responsibilities:

The work will involve listening to audio recordings of PRC Mandarin speech and typing on computer in Mandarin what is said, or fixing the given original Mandarin text to match the audio.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·         Must be a fluent in PRC Mandarin
·         Must have good spelling skills
·         Able to type Simplified Chinese Characters using an appropriate input method
·         Competent computer skills
·         Good level of English proficiency

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·         Degree in Linguistics or other areas of Language study an advantage
·         Good knowledge of Chinese social media content and popular culture references

Japanese Transcriber (Fluent Speaker)

Position Summary: 

Fluent speakers of Japanese required for Transcription

Key Responsibilities:

Appen Butler Hill is looking for fluent speakers of Japanese for a transcription project. The work will involve listening to audio recordings of Japanese speech and typing what is said, or fixing the given original Japanese text to match the audio. Work is on a flexible basis (minimum availability 10 hours per week).

Project Information:

Please register now at http://appenonline.appen.com.au/ and take the Japanese spelling test.

Note: Please make sure that you add Japanese to your Languages under the Account tab. Once you have added it, you will be able to see the Japanese spelling test under the Qualifications Tab.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·         Must be a fluent speaker of Japanese
·         Must have the ability to read and write Japanese
·         Must have good spelling skills
·         Must have basic computer knowledge and typing skills
·         Can understand written English instructions
·         Must have access to a computer and internet connection with the latest version of Firefox, Java and Flash Player