Would you like to become a scribe at Happy Scribe and join our amazing global community? Fantastic! Here's a list of available languages and translation pairings.
Top priority ⭐️
These are the languages we will hire for first.
If you're interested, please reach out to human@happyscribe.com to apply. Include your CV and any languages you speak at what level.
Please be aware that we will prioritise all incoming applications by:
Experience.
The amount of languages you speak fluently.
Whether any of those languages are: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch or Italian.
Transcription and captioning
🇷🇺 Russian
🇨🇳 🇹🇼 Mandarin (simplified and traditional)
🇭🇰 Cantonese
🇺🇦 Ukrainian
🇸🇦 Arabic
🇨🇭 Swiss German
🇭🇷 Croatian
🇷🇴 Romanian
🇬🇷 Greek
🇮🇱 Hebrew
🇹🇭 Thai
🇰🇷 Korean
🇮🇳 Hindi
🇩🇰 Danish
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇩🇪 German
Other transcription and captioning services
In addition to the above languages, we're also looking for people skilled in the below transcription and captioning forms. Please be aware that we're looking for multiple years of experience in the below fields and that we prioritise multilingual applications.
Verbatim transcription
SDH (Subtitles for the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing)
Medical and legal transcription
Translation
European languages
Top translation pairs
🇵🇹 to 🇬🇧 Portuguese to English
🇬🇧 to 🇵🇹 English to Portuguese
🇪🇸 to 🇬🇧 Spanish to English
🇫🇷 to 🇬🇧 French to English
🇮🇹 to 🇬🇧 Italian to English
Other pairs
🇬🇧 to 🇮🇹 English to Italian
🇪🇸 to 🇫🇷 Spanish to French
🇫🇷 to 🇪🇸 French to Spanish
🇪🇸 to 🇩🇪 Spanish to German
🇩🇪 to 🇪🇸 German to Spanish
🇳🇱 to 🇫🇷 Dutch to French
🇩🇪 to 🇬🇧 German to English
🇬🇧 to 🇩🇪 English to German
🇩🇪 to 🇫🇷 German to French
🇫🇷 to 🇩🇪 French to German
🇺🇦 to 🇬🇧 Ukrainian to English
🇬🇧 to 🇺🇦 English to Ukrainian
🇬🇧 to 🇷🇺 English to Russian
🇷🇺 to 🇬🇧 Russian to English
Asian languages
🇬🇧 to 🇸🇦 English to Arabic
🇸🇦 to 🇬🇧 Arabic to English
🇬🇧 to 🇯🇵 English to Japanese
🇯🇵 to 🇬🇧 Japanese to English
🇨🇳 to 🇬🇧 Chinese (Simplified, China) to English
🇹🇼 to 🇬🇧 Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) to English
🇬🇧 to 🇨🇳 English to Chinese (Simplified, China)
🇬🇧 to 🇹🇼 English to Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
🇬🇧 to 🇭🇰 English to Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong)
🇭🇰 to 🇬🇧 Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong) to English
🇯🇵 to 🇨🇳 Japanese to Chinese (Simplified, China)
🇨🇳 to 🇯🇵 Chinese (Simplified, China) to Japanese
🇨🇳 to 🇰🇷 Chinese (Simplified, China) to Korean
🇬🇧 to 🇮🇳 English to Hindi
🇮🇳 to 🇬🇧 Hindi to English
Adaptation
We're also looking for applicants interested in language adaptation for any of the above languages. Adaptation is a comprehensive process that involves extensive editing or rewriting of original subtitles to effectively communicate the video’s message to the target audience. Understanding the customer’s needs and target audience is crucial to the adaptation process. We're seeking professionals with solid experience in adaptation.
If this is you, feel free to send your CV + motivation. Please be aware that we will require that you possess multiple years of adaptation experience.
Other available languages 🚀
We accept applications for the following languages as well, although we might not directly be able to reach out to you with any projects. If you're interested, please reach out to human@happyscribe.com to apply. Include your CV and any languages you speak at what level.
🇷🇸 Serbian
🇫🇮 Finnish
🇭🇺 Hungarian
🇨🇿 Czech
🇳🇴 Norwegian
🇲🇾 Malay
🇸🇰 Slovak
🇸🇮 Slovenian
🇱🇹 Lithuanian
🇪🇪 Estonian
🇮🇷 Persian
🇵🇭 Filipino
🇮🇳 Gujarati
🇮🇩 Indonesian
🇰🇭 Khmer
🇱🇻 Latvian
🇳🇵 Nepali
🇮🇳 Punjabi
🇮🇳 Tamil
🇹🇷 Turkish
🇵🇰 Urdu
🇻🇳 Vietnamese
🇲🇳 Mongolian
Translation
🇬🇧 to 🇪🇸 English to Spanish
🇬🇧 to 🇫🇷 English to French
🇪🇸 to 🇬🇧 Spanish to English
🇫🇷 to 🇬🇧 French to English
🇦🇩 to 🇬🇧 Catalan to English
🇬🇧 to 🇦🇩 English to Catalan
🇬🇧 to 🇳🇱 English to Dutch
🇳🇱 to 🇬🇧 Dutch to English
🇬🇧 to 🇮🇩 English to Indonesian
🇬🇧 to 🇲🇾 English to Malay
🇬🇧 to 🇹🇭 English to Thai
🇬🇧 to 🇮🇸 English to Icelandic
🇬🇧 to 🇨🇿 English to Czech
🇬🇧 to 🇩🇰 English to Danish
🇬🇧 to 🇳🇴 English to Norwegian
🇬🇧 to 🇸🇪 English to Swedish
🇬🇧 to 🇦🇱 English to Albanian
🇬🇧 to 🇧🇦 English to Bosnian
🇬🇧 to 🇭🇷 English to Croatian
🇬🇧 to 🇷🇸 English to Serbian
🇬🇧 to 🇲🇰 English to Macedonian
🇬🇧 to 🇸🇮 English to Slovenian
🇬🇧 to 🇧🇬 English to Bulgarian
🇬🇧 to 🇷🇴 English to Romanian
🇬🇧 to 🇵🇭 English to Filipino
🇵🇭 to 🇬🇧 Filipino to English
Closed applications
We're unfortunately not accepting applications for the following languages:
🇫🇷 French
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇮🇹 Italian
🇵🇱 Polish
🇦🇩 Catalan
🇸🇪 Swedish
🇬🇧 to 🇪🇸 English to Spanish
🇬🇧 to 🇫🇷 English to French
Project availability
Please be aware that we cannot promise any collaborations. We receive a large volume of applications daily and we are partly dependent on all the projects we receive.
Pay rates
For a synopsis of our pay rates, please refer to this page.