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anything about Babbletype? - RHONDA

Posted: Jun 15, 2012

Does anyone know anything about Babbletype? Good or bad? Thanks.

I don't really know anything about them, - but I like their ad...

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at least the ad lays everything out straightforward, which is more than the junk you get from MT companies. If I wasn't already working, I would probably check them out.

Look below and check out the archives, more info on - them there, nm

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Babbletype ad - Too much babble

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When I see something like that, I see an orchestrated ad that was put together by a marketing outfit or someone like that. Way toooo much info for my liking. Again, beware, beware, there is just a lot of junk out there lately praying on unemployed people or people wanting to earn extra money. If you read down on the posts below, you won't think what they are saying is that great. But, if you believe it, I hope you do apply and let us know how it goes and if you are making all that money they seem to be promising. Then the rest of us can apply! TIA. LOL.

Very similar to the MTSO's that post ads - IAMT

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stating they treat their MTs well, have excellent benefits (that you pay through the nose for as an employee)and suggesting they pay well and have plenty of work, don't ya think? Unfortunately, I don't see much difference in what I see for MT job ads lately and the Babbletype ad - SIGH.

WHAT BENEFITS?! - hardlesson

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What benefits? There are no benefits for contract employees who choose to work for Babbletype.
They don't even pay for the "mandatory" training!!! You only get paid $.17 an audio minute as a QA (transcriptionist) who has to "edit" a file done by something from a foreign country. The files YOU have to edit are a mess!!!
I was paid $26.86 for 7 days, 54 hours of work. Highway robbery! and they lied to my unemployment office so now my benefits from a job I worked a year for is gone--but I'm fighting for!
Stay away--all lies. Companies pay for their "good" rating with the BBB and those "enticing" job ads and links you see by Googling!! You've been warned.

BabbleType - Ladee Diane

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this company is a joke. 400 audio minutes paid at 33.90 No bennies. No respect. They lie and screw u over. Run away from them

BABBLE is right! - hardlesson

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It's all babble in the Babbletype LLC ads for transcriptionists!
If you only want to be paid $.17 an audio minute, go for it. I was paid
$26.86 for 7 days of work (54 hours).
Can't live on that, in fact, now broke, no money for groceries, gas, bills, etc.
What Babbletype said to my unemployment office made them deny my weekly benefits I was receiving since March from a company I worked for one year!
It's criminal what they are doing and I'm trying to get the word out. Having to try to fix all the errors from data files "transcribed" by people in other countries--not only bad grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. They don't understand the conversations on the audio tapes they are transcribing from, therefore, more time for the American contract employees to take to correct--therefore, the $.17 a minutes gets smaller and smaller when divided by time done. Example: a 10 minute file they want done in 10 minutes ideally--impossible; if not 10 minutes,get it done in 15 minutes--still highly unlikely. It's all set up to keep the owners of the company with huge profits while teaching other companies how to outsource with their other company BabbleGlass. STAY AWAY IF YOU'RE SMART!
They definitely are taking advantage of unemployed people and don't care!

BABBLETYPES A RIP OFF! - Ladee Diane

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I have 23 years exp. Im a CMT and hae RHIT credentials and am HIPPA certified. I took the job with Babbletype because I was laid off and needed to work.

I just got paid $55 dollars for 490 audio minutes! THEY LIE! I was a tier 5. The highest paid because of experience and skill and have NOT ONCE been paid what I was offered. They LIE!

DONT Waste your time. After what they did to everyone this past week they can rot in hell. I practically worked for nothing. I may as well have

The ADS are lies - hardlesson

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Sugar coated "ads" by Babbletype LLC.
They pay pennies for editing files done by "foreigners" who make way too many mistakes. They only pay $.17 an audio minute.
Don't be misled by the hype in their ads. They probably paid for all those links on Google. They paid for their A- rating with the BBB.
Stay clear, you'll be happy you did! Look at my previous post--I'm still fighting for my unemployment benefits that I was entitled to with a company I worked for one year. Only worked one week for Babbletype! INSANITY! I've sent letters to our Governor's Office and Attorney General's office and the local news stations. If you only knew what financial damage they have caused me!

BABBLETYPE - Ladee DIane

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I just quit Babbletype. They dont pay what they say they pay. 400 audio minutes paid at #33 bucks is NOT 25 cents per audio minute. They cheat they lie and are a bunch of clowns

BABBLETYPE - MT

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I looked below and found some posts about this company and I wouldn't even waste my time applying. The pay is horrible. Again, we seemed to be plaqued by these ripoff companies lately. I don't know if they just want to make a fast buck and leave town and con their employees out of pay or what. It is so hard when you start, because you are literally going to work on faith alone. We do a good job, but have to hold our breath and hope we get paid. Babbletype is babble alright, in order words double speak or however you want to put it which translates to be crooked!

Wow are you people jaded - signalfire

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I think it's a great ad! I don't know anything about the company but their website is anything but fly-by-night. He says they have a huge backlog and need to get it done right away. He gives more than enough information about it to make a decision and apply, and $1 a minute might be good pay or bad, depending on how fast the dictator is talking and how difficult the audio and content is. It's just that there has to be a simple way to charge and pay for the work and this is one way to do it, rather than than the more complicated cents/per/line deal. Looks like a great company for someone wanting work on their own terms time-wise and a lot more interesting (perhaps) then clinic notes and the same ops over and over again.

$1 a min is good pay for a two person, good audio - quality interview - sm

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If it's multi-speaker, focus group, audio with background noise, or cell phone telephonic interviews, market and product surveys, it's not worth it. Seminars and focus groups are worth a LOT more, as there is a ton of research that goes with them and sometimes PowerPoint documents. And you'll get accents, as a lot of these are conducted by people from another country.

p.s. - sm

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Every time I see a company like this or a MT company who is paying well below what we are worth, and even those MTs out there who post on craiglist a ridiculous rate to try and get work, undercutting those of us who are in biz for ourselves and ruining the profession, I send them an e-mail telling them exactly that. Stop insulting us with your pay or contract offers!

Good for you! - hardlesson

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I am so grateful to have read your posting! GOOD for you that you email those people who are undercutting legitimate businesses!
I'd like to work for you--someone with integrity and honesty!

Once again, - IAMT

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is this so different than typing ESL dicators with accents or having expectations of work that is not covered in a CPL rate with MTing or retyping a whole VR record at VR CPL pay and not text CPL pay?

I see this as an option for folks that have been so burnt with the MTSO's being greedy and not paying a decent wage for us to live on any longer - including tactics in taking advantage of MTs and getting around paying overtime. Oh that's right, you can work all you want, you just can't put down more than 40 hours a week. With that said, if they have work, perhaps i would rather work than sit here staring at my screen during periods of no work where the company has either overhired or lost yet another account.

Not bad at $1 - ggmt

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I think $1 a minute is fair. I can type anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes of dictation in an hour. It is depending as someone else said, whether they are talking fast, have good quality sound, etc.

With what that company is offering, it's going to be 4:1 - meaning - sm

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one hour of audio is going to take four hours to type - could take longer due to other factors I mentioned above. That is the standard for general transcription. Groups are the WORST. You can get four, six, seven people in there and one mic in the middle of the table. People talking over people. This guy's voice sounds like that guy's - you'll watch your pay go spiraling down as your stress goes up trying to figure out who is who and labeling them. I did general for a year and said forget that! I now only do WC legal, law enforcement and WC.

Great reply and the truth! - hardlesson

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Yep, one hour of audio can take 4 hours! So glad I finally read someone who knows what Babbletype is all about--lies!
I was told by my manager "you just need to be faster" and "there is potential to make more money", but yet in the long introduction email, it states "can make $10/hour or $1,000 - $2,000/month!
Ha, so untrue! I made $26.86 for 7 days of work totaling 54 hours. I am a fast typist, but the focus groups, people talking over each other, the families with children: these audio files to be transcribed are difficult not even counting the poor quality of the data entry done by foreigners.
Babbletype is a SCAM and their sister company, BabbleGlass, teaches companies "how to outsource" their jobs to foreign countries like the Phillipines and Asia. Go figure! In a time when America needs more jobs, they do this!

So true! - hardlesson

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Yep, most of the transcription is from focus groups or families, like when they are eating dinner and have small children who talk over the adults.
NOT WORTH IT!

Jaded - MT

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Did you apply to them or work for them? I think too many other posts agree with the skepticsm

One week of nothing - hardlesson

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I worked for Babbletype for one week:
7 days, total of 54 hours
PAID: $26.86
It's a scam!

GREAT AD THAT'S ALL LIES - hardlesson

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Don't be fooled by hyped ads--they don't pay $1 a minute! It's $ .17 a minute! If you can live off of that amount, you must have no bills.
I worked 7 days, 54 hours and was paid $26.86
As you said, you don't know anything about the company. Read what people like me who DID work for them says. It's the truth--it's a SCAM!

There is a 10% fee to the company that does their payroll, - so for ever $100 made, you pay $10, sm

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to them for writing the check for you. This is information I obtained from the e-mail sent to me about their positions.

A lot of words and questions that are scary. - anon

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Reminds me of when services took over the hospitals and abolished the MT workforce. Company CEOs came in with a lot of double talk and promises for their profits at the expense of the workers. Never would happen in other professional fields. When we double talk about being paid by the minute, it is an entirely different job. One would have to be used first before giving a true assessment of what is babble and what is truth. Our prayers and good thoughts are with those who take the challenge. Hopefully it is worth a new avenue of employment.

You are referring to the PayPal fee for receiving money - nm

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nm

Cannot remember the name, but it is not PayPal - nm

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oDesk? nm - Alice

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oDesk is an fee-based employment agency - nm

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A percentage of everything you make goes to them. This job is not oDesk so does not apply. However, if paid by PayPal, to receive money PayPal keeps a percentage (much like a product vendor and credit card transactions).

oDesk - Alice

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Actually, an email that I received from Babbletype from their ad week before last indicated that I would have to be signed up with oDesk in order to get paid. So, I wasn't really asking if they use oDesk, but was responding to the post where the person said it wasn't Paypal, but she wasn't sure what it was.

O Desk is not an employment agency - sm

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Its a site where you pay a membership fee to bid on jobs. Lots of off-shore bidders on there and I mean a TON. And a lot of the contracts are looking for cheap transcription rates. Never accept anything less than $45 an a/h for a two speaker, clear audio format - never!

oDesk - hardlesson

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I went through Virtual Assistants. I paid $9.99/monthly to view their job opening listings.
Since my experience, they have "dropped" Babbletype and will not allow them to advertise with them anymore. They will not let companiew with no integrity, once they are notified (like I did), advertise or use their service. GOOD for Virtual Assistants.
I saw oDesk later adversting Babbletype job openings. Either with oDesk or VA, I paid a fee. Hard lesson!

I read their in depth job description and it was a big - sm

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red flag. They charge to deposit your checks and openly admit to saving the easy work for the offshore people. Stay away.

Openly admit! - hardlesson

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Rhonda is right! The owners of the company have their managers "openly admit" the easy work goes to offshore people in the Phillipines and Asia!

Companies like this should be penalized, but I know, this has been going on for decades. No wonder our country is in such bad shape--GREED AND PROFIT FOR THE OWNERS of the company!

From the e-mail I received from them their goal is to - ensure an MT $10 an hour, sm

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of course, there is never any guarantee for any amount of pay. I think the requirements outweigh the pay scale. Look at it this way, if you were being paid for VR at 4 cpl and you did (just a rough estimate here) lets say 30 minutes of VR in an hour with let's say 300 lines, you would make $12 for the hour. If you got the same 30 minutes for the hour paid per minute audio at 17 cents per audio minute, you would make $5.10 for the hour, 60 minutes is $10.20 for the hour, 120 minutes would be $20.40. That is a lot of minutes and I highly doubt anyone could do 120 minutes in an hour (unless the work being edited was flawless) to make it worth the time. There is a previous post on here from someone who has actually worked for the company and they too expressed that the pay was too low for the work being done.

SM--thank you for the break down into $ p/h!! - anon

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Thanks so very much. It is like KS and other services who pay by the page. They don't say the page is entirely full and inaudible dictation, and they pay 89cents and differently to different people. We go from the frying pan into the fire and then Babylon...sorry Babbletype.

From what I understand requirements are quite low - Daisy

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They are looking for 80% accuracy and if the file is horrible you can "fail" it at the start and not work on it at all.

No $10 an hour! - hardlesson

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Anybody can say anything especially when being a manager for a greedy company and having put 2 years already into being there!
NO, I don't believe $10/hour is possible.
Just figure $.17 an audio minute and you do the math. I got paid $26.86 for 7 days, 54 hours of work. No one told me how to fail files. They only told me "I needed to be faster."

BABBLETYPE tells lies in their ads and emails - hardlesson

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Yep! All true, no one can make a decent "wage" working for Babbletype.
Rhonda, you did an excellent job in showing examples!
They gave me the 1:1 ratio as if anyone could possibly edit a file while listening! Come on, it's all hype while adding more profit to the owners, CEO and COO. I have posted a lot in the early morning hours of 7/12/12 because yesterday, after waiting 4 weeks for a decision, I just found out my unemployment benefits are being denied (I was collecting since March, worked 1 week in June for Babbletype). It's a crime and now I have to spend time fighting this because of something said by COO of Babbletype. How can someone lie and tell the State "I didn't ask for different job duties?" There are NO different job duties--it's all transcription!!! Highway robbery, I've reported them to the Governor's Office, the Attorney General's office, a local news station. The BBB in Philadelphia wouldn't do anything (that's where their main office is). You know companies can "buy" their high rating with the BBB (Better Business Bureau).
I was fooled by the lies in their job ad and the "introduction email--you're being contacted because you passed the test and are hired". That test took me over 3 hours and FYI, all "mandatory training" once hired is NOT PAID. Asking questions, doing paperwork, viewing training videos, etc.--NOT PAID. So you give your valuable time to Babbletype while "learning" the job and get paid a whole $.17 per audio minute when transcribing for messed up files done by foreigners! Insane! Hard lesson, I am broke, no $ for groceries, gas or rent, all due to this company and having to wait 4 weeks for an answer on my unemployment. Yes, I'm mad and going to fight for what is right and due me. God have mercy on these greedy people!

What does it mean "Native DE required" - sm

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This is in their confidentiality agreement Appendix for fees payable to receive $1.00 per audio minute. Otherwise, it is 0.25 per audio minute for standard transcription.

NO, it is $0.17 per minute - hardlesson

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Where does it say you get paid $.25 per audio minute?
I worked for a week in June, it was
$.17 an audio minute.

So they hire non-US?? - another skeptic

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Did anyone not notice this - "Note that weâ��ll be asking you for a W9 (US) or W8-BEN (non-US citizens) tax form"?

YES THEY DO HIRE NON-US! - hardlesson

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Not only do they hire people from Asia and the Phillipines, they make the American "contract" employees try to fix all the errors in their transcription for only $.17 an audio minute!!
Someone is getting rich and it's not the employees!

Babbletype is a SCAM! - hardlesson

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It's a scam! They pay only pennies on audio transcription editing with the file you are editing done by people from Asia and the Philipines. There are so many errors, it's a waste of time. They also DO NOT tell you "mandatory" training IS NOT paid or anything else you do, like ask questions--no pay. You're only paid for files edited. They basically want a 1:1 ratio, edit a file as you listen, which is impossible. They only pay $.17 per audio minute, you lose money because of all the errors. They also own another company, Babbletype Glass, that teaches companies how to "outsource" their jobs to other countries. No integrity here with the owners, CEO & COO. Only greed at the expense of contract (American) workers. Stay clear of Babbletype LLC and tell your friends. I lost my unemployment benefits from a previous job of one year because the COO lied to DES about me. I worked 7 days, 54 hours. Was paid $26.86 Easy to see it's a SCAM. I went by the BBB report with the A- rating, then was reminded companies can "buy" their rating with the Better Business Bureau. Very misleading, dishonest and a hard lesson learned for me. I'm still fighting for my benefits!

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