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Transcriptionist
Speech recognition now beats human accuracy on most audio, at a fraction of a cent per minute.
Replacement risk
95%
Mostly gone by
2027
Runway left
1 yrs
Almost certainly replaced
The ten-question breakdown
Each factor is scored 0–100. Higher means easier to automate.
Scoring the ten factors for this job…
What you can do now
- Specialise in legal, medical or forensic transcription where certification still matters
- Offer editing and verification of machine transcripts at high speed
- Move into captioning, localisation and subtitle quality control
Where to move next
- Localisation specialist
- Legal documentation specialist
- Media captioning editor