I now believe in mechanical turk
Hi all,
I never even visited Mechanical Turk until yesterday.
Two stories here.
First of all I have a very good friend who needed to give a speech in another language. (Hindi) He has a working knowledge of that language but he felt like he needed some help in preparing the speech.
He broke the speech down sentence-by-sentence and submitted each sentence on Mturk as a HIT. Each HIT had 10 offers (don't know if I'm getting the lingo correct as I just started with MTurk)
He told the "workers" to translate the sentences in their own words in their native language. Being Hindi, HITS were limited to India.
He made it a term of acceptance that no bable fish translations would be accepted. He put each sentence into Bablefish so he would recognize the Bable fish translation and rejected all BF translations.
He got his sentences all back with several unique translations each and picked the sentences he liked, even using parts of some combined with others.
He gave his final draft to a good friend who is fluent in Hindi and it passed with flying colors. The speech was a hit.
Just to add to my friend’s idea if I was going to give a live presentation to a group of people who spoke another language other than mine I'd pay someone to "translate" it to English Phonics.
Now, my friend’s success with MT made me take another look at it for my IM business.
My experinence:
I posted a HIT for a 100+ word article and got back a good 144-word article.
I took two key words from that article and posted another HIT. I'm waiting to see what happens.
Before I thought MT was just a bunch of people taking advantage of people in dire straights. I suppose there is a lot of that going on, however, it's helping a lot of people too. You can offer decent payment.
Of course, for me, these articles are "seed articles," just to get my juices flowing and writing. I often need that and I think I've found a way to kick my brain into action and crush writer's block.
Plus dipping my toes into the waters of outsourcing felt great also.
My friend got a note from one of the workers that said in part, "Thank you for this assignment, it helped me and my family very much, a dollar goes a long, long way where I live."
George Wright P.S. Besides the low cost the most impressive thing is the turn around time. My article was sent to me 3 hours after I posted the HIT, even though I gave a 24hr time limit.
I never even visited Mechanical Turk until yesterday.
Two stories here.
First of all I have a very good friend who needed to give a speech in another language. (Hindi) He has a working knowledge of that language but he felt like he needed some help in preparing the speech.
He broke the speech down sentence-by-sentence and submitted each sentence on Mturk as a HIT. Each HIT had 10 offers (don't know if I'm getting the lingo correct as I just started with MTurk)
He told the "workers" to translate the sentences in their own words in their native language. Being Hindi, HITS were limited to India.
He made it a term of acceptance that no bable fish translations would be accepted. He put each sentence into Bablefish so he would recognize the Bable fish translation and rejected all BF translations.
He got his sentences all back with several unique translations each and picked the sentences he liked, even using parts of some combined with others.
He gave his final draft to a good friend who is fluent in Hindi and it passed with flying colors. The speech was a hit.
Just to add to my friend’s idea if I was going to give a live presentation to a group of people who spoke another language other than mine I'd pay someone to "translate" it to English Phonics.
Now, my friend’s success with MT made me take another look at it for my IM business.
My experinence:
I posted a HIT for a 100+ word article and got back a good 144-word article.
I took two key words from that article and posted another HIT. I'm waiting to see what happens.
Before I thought MT was just a bunch of people taking advantage of people in dire straights. I suppose there is a lot of that going on, however, it's helping a lot of people too. You can offer decent payment.
Of course, for me, these articles are "seed articles," just to get my juices flowing and writing. I often need that and I think I've found a way to kick my brain into action and crush writer's block.
Plus dipping my toes into the waters of outsourcing felt great also.
My friend got a note from one of the workers that said in part, "Thank you for this assignment, it helped me and my family very much, a dollar goes a long, long way where I live."
George Wright P.S. Besides the low cost the most impressive thing is the turn around time. My article was sent to me 3 hours after I posted the HIT, even though I gave a 24hr time limit.
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