Type: Contractor Assignment

Location: Remote

Commitment: Part-time (20-40 hours/week), for 6 weeks

Role Responsibilities

• Listen critically to audio clips and write clear, concise English descriptions of voices, sounds, and scene changes.
• Transcribe English speech accurately, including repetitions, fillers, and names, and flag speech in other languages.
• Identify different speakers and track conversations, including overlaps, interruptions, and group speech.
• Describe voice characteristics such as pitch, voice quality, loudness, pace, emotion, and intonation.
• Identify, count, and time non-speech vocal sounds such as laughter, coughs, sneezes, sobs, gasps, and breathing.
• Identify and describe background sounds, music, ambience, and other audio events.
• Accurately identify sound beginnings, endings, speaker changes, overlaps, and transitions.
• Review machine-generated drafts and identify invented, missing, mistimed, or incorrectly attributed content.
• Maintain consistent judgment and annotation quality across audio clips and batches.

Requirements

• 3+ years of direct professional experience in audio captioning, transcription, or audio annotation.
• Background in linguistics, voice analysis/coaching, or audio production is preferred.
• Native-level written English proficiency with the ability to describe voices and sounds precisely and concisely.
• Ability to distinguish English accents and recognize other languages.
• Strong listening skills, including the ability to identify quiet, brief, overlapping, and changing audio details.
• Ability to distinguish individual sound sources and describe their characteristics, relative loudness, and timing.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain focus and consistency across long batches.

• Listen critically to audio clips and write clear, concise English descriptions of voices, sounds, and scene changes.
• Transcribe English speech accurately, including repetitions, fillers, and names, and flag speech in other languages.
• Identify different speakers and track conversations, including overlaps, interruptions, and group speech.
• Describe voice characteristics such as pitch, voice quality, loudness, pace, emotion, and intonation.
• Identify, count, and time non-speech vocal sounds such as laughter, coughs, sneezes, sobs, gasps, and breathing.
• Identify and describe background sounds, music, ambience, and other audio events.
• Accurately identify sound beginnings, endings, speaker changes, overlaps, and transitions.
• Review machine-generated drafts and identify invented, missing, mistimed, or incorrectly attributed content.
• Maintain consistent judgment and annotation quality across audio clips and batches.

• Native-level written English proficiency
• Ability to describe voices and sounds precisely and concisely
• Ability to distinguish English accents and recognize other languages
• Strong listening skills
• Ability to identify quiet, brief, overlapping, and changing audio details
• Ability to distinguish individual sound sources and describe their characteristics, relative loudness, and timing
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to maintain focus and consistency across long batches

• 3+ years of direct professional experience in audio captioning, transcription, or audio annotation
• Background in linguistics, voice analysis/coaching, or audio production is preferred