Transcription is the act of turning audio and/or video into text. This takes a highly skilled ear and good grammar to be a successful with transcription.

Some companies will expect some sort of previous schooling or experience before hiring you for this position, however, some companies are willing to allow you to test and would hire without the schooling and experience. I recommend signing up for MTurk and listening to some of the transcription audio they have there and try your hand at that first before taking on a company test.

There is free software called EScribe that allows you to slow down, speed up and clear up audio which is a real necessity in this line of work. Way too often you will run across transcription audio recordings of people with heavy accents, fast talkers, whisperers or some with a lot of background noise so being able to work with them can save a lot of time.

Many work at home transcriptionists also have a foot pedal which is on some occasions required by companies hiring for transcription both medical and general.