Weekly payments but has zero respect for freelancers - Freelancer Babel Audio Employee Review

All on your free time.

Not enough work given per week

The pay rate itself is real, $17.50 per recorded hour on the entry tier, and the work format is genuinely as described when the technical gatekeeping isn't actively working against you.

The equipment requirements to pass their audio and video check are never disclosed before you apply, so you find out what you actually need only after you've already invested time trying to qualify. I purchased a webcam, a USB headset, and an ethernet adapter, all on direct recommendations from their own admin team, specifically to meet requirements that were never listed anywhere up front. After doing everything instructed, their internal pre-check still failed me on network jitter while an independent, third-party speed test, the exact one their team told me to run, showed results well within their own stated requirements at the same time on the same connection. When I asked for clarification, I was sent the same templated response twice, word for word in every technical paragraph, containing a factual error where my download and upload numbers were reported backwards. Neither time did anyone catch the error before sending it again. When I pointed out the contradiction directly, I was lectured about my tone instead of given an actual answer. The standards aren't strict, they're internally inconsistent, and the burden of proving your equipment and internet are good enough never lifts no matter what you fix.