

What’s the latest book you’ve read and your favorite thing about it? Write 10 adjectives that best describe you socially and professionally. Have you ever done transcription work before? If so, for what company and for how long? Have you ever worked remotely for 6-months or more? How did you like it?

What’s the best word per minute (wpm) and accuracy percentage you scored on this typing test (3 tries max)? Īre you available Mon-Fri 6AM-6PM PST? How many hours would you be available to work with us next week? Please include the answers to the following questions in your cover letter with your application.

Know that we will consider you in priority if you also:Ī) Have experience in the following: transcription of audio, translation, subtitling, proofreading, captioning.ī) Are happy to train ~4 hours to become a Scribe, to start and are happy to begin training with a few hours a week. You are a reliable person: if you commit to a time to Scribe, a deaf/hard-of-hearing Ava user counts on you! You are used to proactive and clear communication with people You have worked remotely before (6+ months), have a good Wifi connection and silence at home You are savvy with technology and familiar using computers. (Test if you can type word per minute here: ) You type quickly and accurately on your keyboard. You could join the Scribe team if you are all of these: Scribe connects on their laptop at the meeting time and carefully listens to the live conversation an Ava user is having and corrects quickly any error made by the automated transcription: this makes 99% accurate captions possible. To deliver a perfect transcription of these conversations, Ava combines artificial intelligence (voice-to-text) and human intelligence (the Scribe team). Work from home 10-15 hrs/week, (20hrs+ possible!) on their computer for 1h-2h sessions at a time within the 6 AM-6 PM PST hours, during weekdaysĪre always on-time for our missions and quite reactive on their emails (we often give a 24-hr heads-up)Īre truly excited to be making the world a better placeĪva is a start-up that empowers millions of deaf and hard of hearing people better communicate and connect with the people around them by providing them real-time transcription in their classroom lectures and work meetings. Work flexibly from home, help make the world a better place. We dream of a 24/7 accessible world, without any communication barrier. Our small but fast-growing team has reinvented AI-based speech recognition technology to be in service of people who need it the most. Together with our CTO Skinner - deaf since age 2 - Thibault co-founded Ava to make live captioning of conversations as easy as turning on captions on TV. Our CEO Thibault grew up in a Deaf family & witnessed firsthand how the world was not accessible for them. Our first step at Ava is to empower 450M deaf and hard-of-hearing people to live in a fully accessible world.Įvery day, millions of people are excluded from conversations because they cannot hear what others say well. We want to radically improve how we humans communicate with each other.
