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You’re paired up
At the start of each round you’re matched with another speaker in the session. You get a different partner every round, so you’re never stuck with one way of doing things.
Paid remote work · Gujarati speakers
Gujarati, the way it’s actually spoken.
Coscript is a small project collecting everyday Gujarati vaatchit — વાતચીત — the casual, spoken language people use with friends, family and neighbors. We pay Gujarati speakers to help us document it.
- ₹1,200Base pay, guaranteed
- ~₹2,000What most people earn
- One sessionA single day, fully remote
- No experienceJust natural Gujarati
Why we’re doing this
Most of the Gujarati on record is the formal kind.
વાતચીત
vaatchit
noun — talk, conversation. The back-and-forth kind, not the written kind.
Textbooks, news articles, published translations, the output of translation apps — the Gujarati that gets written down tends to be careful and correct. It is not how anyone talks over chai.
Everyday vaatchit is a different thing. It moves fast. It borrows words. It leaves out whatever doesn’t need saying, and it shifts depending on who you’re speaking to. Very little of it is written down anywhere.
Coscript collects exactly that. More than 55 million people speak Gujarati, and it is still what researchers call a low-resource language — thin on the everyday material that other languages have in abundance. We’re adding to it, one conversation at a time.
The people who can do this work aren’t translators or academics. They’re people who speak Gujarati every day and know, without having to stop and think, how a sentence really lands.
The work
Short scenes, translated with a partner.
Each round pairs you with another Gujarati speaker in your session. Together you take three short everyday scenes written in English and put them into Gujarati — not correct Gujarati, natural Gujarati.
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You translate three scenes
Short, everyday situations, written in English. You and your partner work through them together and settle on how you’d actually say each line out loud.
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You swap and go again
Four rounds, or five in larger sessions, with a quick check-in after each one. That’s 12 translations over a session — 15 if yours runs five rounds.
What we’re after
- The phrasing you’d genuinely use
- Casual, spoken rhythm — how it sounds out loud
- Mixed-in English or Hindi words, if that’s how you’d say it
- Regional habits and local turns of phrase
What we’re not after
- Formal or literary Gujarati
- Word-for-word accuracy
- Textbook grammar
- Anything you’d only ever write, never say
There are no right answers here. We’re not grading your Gujarati — we’re documenting it.
The session day
One session, start to finish.
Everything happens on a single day, over recorded Google Meet video calls. Here is the whole shape of it, so there are no surprises.
The day before · 10 minutes
Setup check
A short call to confirm your connection, your audio and your tools all work. It is brief, but it is not optional — it is how we stop small problems from becoming session-day problems.
Hour 1
Setup and instruction
We walk everyone through the task together, answer questions and get you comfortable with the tools. There is nothing to prepare in advance.
Hours 2–5
The translation rounds
Four rounds, or five in larger sessions. A new partner each round, three scenes to work through together, and a short check-in when the round ends.
Last 30 minutes
Payment and wrap-up
We confirm your bonus and settle payment before you go, so you finish the day knowing exactly what you earned.
Hold a six-hour window on your session day, with a stable internet connection. Cameras stay off the whole time — nobody sees you, and you do not need a webcam. What you do need is working audio, because you and your partner talk every scene through together.
Pay
₹1,200 guaranteed. Around ₹2,000 typical.
Base pay for finishing your session, plus a bonus on every round.
Base pay
₹1,200
for completing your session
Paid for seeing the session through from start to finish. It does not depend on how well you do — only on you being there and taking part in every round.
Round bonus
up to ₹400
per round
Every round carries a ₹400 bonus, spread across that round’s three scenes. You and your partner share it according to how the work divides between you — an even split is about ₹200 each.
| Item | Four-round session | Five-round session |
|---|---|---|
| Base pay | ₹1,200 | ₹1,200 |
| Bonus available across the session | ₹1,600 | ₹2,000 |
| Typical total, even split | ₹2,000 | ₹2,200 |
| Maximum possible | ₹2,800 | ₹3,200 |
How the typical figure works out. We expect partners to contribute roughly equally, so a typical round earns you about half of its ₹400 bonus. Over four rounds that is ₹800 on top of your ₹1,200 base — around ₹2,000 in total.
The maximum figures assume one person produced everything in every round, which almost never happens. Whether your session runs four rounds or five depends on how many people are in it.
Who we’re looking for
Is this you?
Only the first one really matters. The rest is logistics.
You’ll need to
- Speak Gujarati the way friends, family and locals actually speak it
- Read short, simple English — that is what the scenes are written in
- Hold a six-hour window on your session day
- Have a stable internet connection and somewhere moderately quiet to work
- Join a 10-minute setup check the day before
- Work on a computer with a working microphone — you will be on a call and in a shared document at once
- Be 18 or older
You won’t need
- Translation experience of any kind
- Formal training or study in Gujarati
- Fluent or academic English
- A webcam — cameras stay off throughout
- Special software — beyond a browser, headphones and a computer
- To be a fast typist
- To prepare anything at all before the day
Questions
Before you apply.
Do I need to be a professional translator?
No — and we would rather you were not thinking like one. We are not looking for polished translation. We are looking for the way you would say something to a friend. If you speak Gujarati casually and can read simple English, you can do this work.
What if I mix English or Hindi words into my Gujarati?
Then mix them in. If that is how the sentence would really come out of your mouth, that is what belongs on the page. Cleaning it up would defeat the point of the project.
My Gujarati is regional. Is that a problem?
Not at all. There is no standard we are checking you against, and local phrasing is genuinely useful to us rather than something to be smoothed away.
Is it fully remote?
Yes. Everything happens over a Google Meet call and a shared document. You will need a computer and a connection that holds up for the length of the session — which is exactly what the 10-minute check the day before is for.
Do I need to be on camera?
No. Cameras stay off for the whole session, so nobody sees you and you do not need a webcam. Working audio is the part that matters: you and your partner talk each scene through out loud, so a microphone and headphones do all the work.
How and when do I get paid?
Payment is settled in the last half hour of your session, once all the rounds are finished, so you leave knowing exactly what you earned. We will confirm the details with you before your session date.
What happens if my internet drops mid-session?
Tell us as soon as you can and we will do what we can to get you back in. This is the main reason the setup check exists the day before — please do not skip it.
What if I cannot make my session after all?
Let us know as early as possible. Sessions run with a fixed group of people who are paired with each other round by round, so one person missing affects everyone else who showed up. Telling us early costs nothing. Telling us late costs other people their day.
What happens to the translations I produce?
They become part of the data this project exists to collect. If you would like to know more about that before applying, email admin@coscript.net and ask.
Can I do more than one session?
At the moment we are recruiting people for a single session each.
What happens after I apply?
We go through your responses and message you on WhatsApp about scheduling. If you are a fit, the next step is picking a session date and doing the short setup check the day before it.
Apply
Come and talk the way you talk.
The application asks about your Gujarati, your availability, and how to reach you. If you fit what we are looking for, we will be in touch about a session date.
Questions first? admin@coscript.net