Transcription isn’t just typing. You need good grammar and English, listening skills, good punctuation and you need to know how to construct a sentence so it makes sense. Then you need to know if you are producing a verbatim transcript or a ‘clean’ transcript and the difference between the various types of transcript. Each British company generally has its own ‘house style’ and rules you will need to learn, especially so for the court transcription companies (the one I do some work for declines nine out of ten applicants). There can be a lot of research even for ‘simple’ transcripts to ensure correct name/place/product spellings etc.

If you can crack this, and produce consistently high quality documents (which will be checked for quality), transcribing is a very rewarding job both financially and job satisfaction and you will learn a lot!