Role Overview

Support the development of multilingual AI voice capabilities by curating and annotating audio data, evaluating speech, and translating/localizing English content into Yoruba. The role focuses on improving speech recognition, voice interactions, and multilingual audio quality.

Responsibilities

• Label, annotate, record, and provide input on multilingual audio and speech data.

• Translate and localize UI copy, prompts, responses, and other content from English to Yoruba.

• Evaluate audio quality, pronunciation, accents, intonation, rhythm, and other linguistic details.

• Support improvements to AI speech handling, including accents, modulation, noise, and multilingual processing.

• Collaborate with technical teams to improve audio annotation tools and workflows.

Requirements

• Native Yoruba proficiency, including familiarity with diverse accents or dialects.

• English proficiency of B2 or higher with clear pronunciation suitable for recording.

• Strong auditory perception and ability to identify speech and audio nuances.

• Experience transcribing audio accurately across accents and varying quality.

• Ability to translate and localize accurately between English and Yoruba.

• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.

• Ability to make consistent judgments on ambiguous or varied audio content.

Preferred

• Background in linguistics, speech sciences, cognitive science, or related fields.

• Experience with speech/audio datasets, annotation, AI training data, or voice models.

• Advanced transcription and annotation experience, including disfluencies and prosodic features.

• Translation/localization experience, especially for software or conversational AI.

• Professional voice, recording, podcasting, or audio-production experience.

• Portfolio of voice samples, annotated transcripts, or related audio work.

Location & Work Requirements

• Roles may be full-time, part-time, or contractor, depending on needs and candidate fit.

• Contractor hours are flexible; projects may typically require at least 10 hours/week, depending on scope.

• Remote work is available worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role requirements.

• US candidates: Wyoming and Illinois are currently excluded.

• Visa sponsorship is not provided.

• Personal-device users must have a Chromebook, macOS 11.0+, or Windows 10+ computer.

Compensation

• US-based: $35–$45/hour, depending on experience, skills, education, location, and qualifications.

• International: Compensation details provided during recruitment.

• Eligible US-based positions may include health insurance, 401(k), and paid sick leave; benefits vary by employment type, location, and jurisdiction.