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Jeremy Powell
Jeremy Powell
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May 11, 2020

Hello.
I just found a short "English Recording" job (record myself speaking in English) for about 1 hour and a half.
I am used to translating or transcribing, so I have no idea what to charge for this. I know I will take some extra time to read and practice the text out loud before recording and sending it so...
Any advice would be appreciated!!
 
Sheila Wilson
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All I know May 11, 2020

Jeremy Powell wrote:
I just found a short "English Recording" job (record myself speaking in English) for about 1 hour and a half.
I am used to translating or transcribing, so I have no idea what to charge for this. I know I will take some extra time to read and practice the text out loud before recording and sending it so...

You mean the finished audio will run for an hour and a half? That's an enormous length of time!

The only experience I've had was about 20 years ago in a small but professional setup, recording the English commentary for our local "petit train" for tourists in France. Each segment was just a few lines of simple stuff along the lines of "On your left now is ...". I don't remember the overall volume of words but it took hours. I wasn't allowed to falter in any way at all, pause too long or too little between sentences, drop a "t", let my intonation get a bit flat... Neither was I allowed to change anything, although in the end I did manage to get "penitentiary" changed to the British English "prison". That was after I'd stumbled over the unfamiliar word dozens of times.
 


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