I have been transcribing for more than 15 years and working on Freelancer for about three years, always with excellent reviews.
Below is as much of the demo file as will fit here:
What should we talk about today? Well, I heard that people were calling me Hitler on Facebook, not because -- it wasn’t because of what I was saying; it was because of the tone. Well, if I was bitchy then, now when I just found out that I’m pregnant and my hormone levels are through the roof, imagine how bitchy I can be now. And they also say that I curse a lot. I don’t fucking curse a lot. I only curse when I’m pissed. And, okay, I’ll admit: I’m pissed pretty much most of the time. Yeah, call me bitch, call me whatever. You know, the test has to be a bit hard, just a bit, because it’s not 10 pages, it’s not 10 steps that you have to take like on other sites because, yeah, I’ve been out there, I’ve seen the other tests, I know what they’re about. So you should just say, “Thank you,” for this small test of three minutes, with no background noise, no trouble transcribing, no trouble doing the quiz, because you have the answers right there in the guideline, and also you can look at the samples, etc.
Okay, so as I was saying, what should we talk about next? Oh, ah, I saw another thing on Facebook: that I sound like Salma Hayek. Well, seriously, she’s Mexican, for God’s sake, and I’m just starting to say that don’t assume that my accent is Russian, which means I’m from somewhere around Russia.