Aberdeen Broadcast Services, a California-based family captioning business, offers transcription services for video producers and broadcasters to cover such areas as digital file delivery, translation and voice dubbing. The company operates three divisions: AberFast, AberCap, and
This company is not for beginner typists, and many of its jobs in captioning, transcription and translation are in its Orange County, CA offices. However, experienced real-time captioners can work at home.
They offer work-at-home jobs in:
- Real-time captioning – Hires experienced freelance real-time captioners with speeds of 180-220 WPM for live captions or live-to-tape programming. Knowledge of Bible/Christian terminology is needed for some positions. Freelancers should have their own real-time, closed-captioning software, a backup computer and three phone lines (one can be a cell). Pays up to $75 per hour.
- Transcription – Hires transcriptionists for video clips. These jobs are very typical of the home typist jobs. You are required to have a foot pedal, transcription software professional headphones, and Windows media player installed. Excellent grammar and punctuation skills, as well as knowledge of Christian terminology, are required. Pays $1-$1.50 per audio minute.
- Translation – Hires freelance linguists who have five years experience as a professional translator, a university degree and native fluency for translating subtitles, voice-overs and creating subtitles using subtitling software.
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