Transcribing Japanese Audio
Posted 2025-08-15
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
Company & Work Summary
Dialpad is a business communications SaaS company located in the US. We are looking for transcribers who are familiar with Japanese to transcribe audio for us.
This job will consist of transcribing 8 short audio clips and will be used to evaluate accuracy and turn-around time. If we are happy with your performance we will be interested in having you complete a larger amount of audio, between 10 and 30 hours, depending on your availability and how many successful applicants we receive.
You will be paid for completing the evaluation regardless of whether or not we select you for future work. Evaluations will be sent through the Labelbox platform, and will require you to sign up for an account.
Because we will be sending you audio from our customers, anyone who is selected for the evaluation process will be required to sign an NDA.
While the target language of the audio you will transcribe is in Japanese, you will also need to have advanced knowledge of the English language for this role.
Audio & Speaker Characteristics:
- Audio has been sliced into short sequences of speech, ranging from 5 to 45 seconds long.
- Audio will contain only one speaker and only their side of the conversation, large silences will have been removed.
- Audio quality will vary depending on the environment and microphone setup of the speaker but the majority will not have excessive background noise, echo or be very difficult to hear.
- Speakers are speaking in Japanese (Japan).
- Audio is taken from business phone conversations.
Expectations for this project:
- Ability to complete an hour of audio in approximately 5 to 6 hours, slightly more is acceptable for difficult audio.
- Ability to produce highly accurate transcripts of business conversation audio.
- Ability to accurately identify Japanese-specific proper nouns, slang, jargon and figures of speech.
- Ability to accurately identify business jargon including names of companies and products.
- Ability to transcribe in full verbatim.
What will you be evaluated on?
We will be looking at your overall accuracy with a special focus on keyphrase (jargon, companies, products etc.) accuracy. We will also be interested in the length of audio which you can complete in one hour of work. Lastly, we will be interested in how accurately your full verbatim is.
How to Apply:
Please respond to this ad and include the following information:
- Years of experience performing transcription.
- Experience with business terminology.
- Please mention your experience with Japanese (Japan).
- Estimated turnaround time for evaluation task.
- Full name and email address* which we can send a DocuSign link to our NDA.
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Dialpad is a business communications SaaS company located in the US. We are looking for transcribers who are familiar with Japanese to transcribe audio for us.
This job will consist of transcribing 8 short audio clips and will be used to evaluate accuracy and turn-around time. If we are happy with your performance we will be interested in having you complete a larger amount of audio, between 10 and 30 hours, depending on your availability and how many successful applicants we receive.
You will be paid for completing the evaluation regardless of whether or not we select you for future work. Evaluations will be sent through the Labelbox platform, and will require you to sign up for an account.
Because we will be sending you audio from our customers, anyone who is selected for the evaluation process will be required to sign an NDA.
While the target language of the audio you will transcribe is in Japanese, you will also need to have advanced knowledge of the English language for this role.
Audio & Speaker Characteristics:
- Audio has been sliced into short sequences of speech, ranging from 5 to 45 seconds long.
- Audio will contain only one speaker and only their side of the conversation, large silences will have been removed.
- Audio quality will vary depending on the environment and microphone setup of the speaker but the majority will not have excessive background noise, echo or be very difficult to hear.
- Speakers are speaking in Japanese (Japan).
- Audio is taken from business phone conversations.
Expectations for this project:
- Ability to complete an hour of audio in approximately 5 to 6 hours, slightly more is acceptable for difficult audio.
- Ability to produce highly accurate transcripts of business conversation audio.
- Ability to accurately identify Japanese-specific proper nouns, slang, jargon and figures of speech.
- Ability to accurately identify business jargon including names of companies and products.
- Ability to transcribe in full verbatim.
What will you be evaluated on?
We will be looking at your overall accuracy with a special focus on keyphrase (jargon, companies, products etc.) accuracy. We will also be interested in the length of audio which you can complete in one hour of work. Lastly, we will be interested in how accurately your full verbatim is.
How to Apply:
Please respond to this ad and include the following information:
- Years of experience performing transcription.
- Experience with business terminology.
- Please mention your experience with Japanese (Japan).
- Estimated turnaround time for evaluation task.
- Full name and email address* which we can send a DocuSign link to our NDA.
• Upwork's contact information sharing policy makes an exception for legal purposes such as NDAs. Apply tot his job