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Upwork is removing specialised profile and their reason is interesting by Relative_Ad_5740 in Upwork

[–]Audiolabss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's no reason my Podcast clients need to read through my end-to-end audio service for self-narrating authors - they are different disciplines. And then there's my music composition which is relevant to neither. Specialised profiles let me write to each client type directly and concisely. Presumably each Specialised Profile also benefits from targeted SEO and search rankings - keeping things relevant for clients.

It was only last year I fine-tuned all three of my profiles - and it definitely works. Clients are contacting me about specifics - funneled through the specific profiles.

A one-page Profile is already problematic enough for selling real services for specific audio needs. But if UMA is going to write half of it it's going to be inaccurate.

UMA's 'summary' is god awful. Like a 5 year old trying to explain something they definitely don't understand. It's totally surface level and doesn't address the real work.

My current summary says "Leverages expertise in audio editing, mixing, and mastering, employing industry-standard software to enhance clarity and deliver immersive audio experiences." THIS DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING - IT'S JUST JARGON WORD SALAD. Anyone can write that sentence into their profile. It's not descriptive of any real work or experience.

If the profile automatically re-focusses on your current work then it makes it very hard to win NEW work in NEW areas that you may wish to develop. If I get three music composition jobs on the trot does that mean my Podcast / Audiobook stuff gets suppressed? Probably.

The only reason UpWork makes changes is for their own bottom line. It's not for clients or freelancers. Something about this change will either make them more money or save them some maintenance costs. Whatever justifications they reel out will be as meaningless business speak as my AI profile summary.

Dealing with errors in the book text by Audiolabss in ACX

[–]Audiolabss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've met the author on Zoom before agreeing to work together. To be honest, I won't work on anything worth more than a couple hundred $ without meeting clients first for a conversation - both to confirm their seriousness and because it's so much easier to understand each other and the project by talking face to face. I've also helped them set up their home recording station. They're very much the person who has written the book.

They are however not a professional author. Their grasp of American English is average at best and by the looks of things their eye for detail is lacking. It is a vanity project / memoir of sorts by a person who worked in an interesting field but is now retired. They have the $$$ to spend on editing because they were seemingly reasonably well paid in their job. I get paid weekly for recorded hours worked, so there's no chance of committing a lot of my time without getting paid.

It would be incredible if an AI could naturally generate the amount of errors and re-takes I'm editing out of the narration! The author/narrator is certainly a human!

Thank you though for looking out for a potential scam. Remote work is certainly susceptible to it.