You can use MTurk by using crowdflower.com outside the US.  I'm in Canada
and I use WO app that submits jobs and pulls data from MTurk via
crowdflower.  I highly suggest it.  It makes MTurk far easier to use as
well.

That being said, wouldn't it be easier just to shoot the files to a
transcription company?  Especially since there's alot of domain specific
terminology.

The biggest pain I've had with crowd-sourcing is getting your error rate
down.  You can brute force it with high cost jobs or job repetition (which
crowdflower does beautiful).  Or you need to manually review everything.
 Or you can do it with trial and error, and how your job is designed.  I
only got the hang of it after submitting 6-12k jobs per month for at least
4 months before I was really happy.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Amy Worrall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Johan Henselmans <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Some people reported having transcripts done this way. Unfortunately, I
> am not allowed to use this tool, as I am not a citizen of the US of A.
>
> I've used it (from Britain) via those companies that offer a service
> where they submit the audio to Mechanical Turk and collate the
> results. It wasn't too expensive and it was a lot better than having
> to transcribe it myself!
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