Remote French Speech Audio Engineer - TTS Specialist

mercor; Belgique; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) fluent in French to edit and prepare French voice data for AI models. This remote contract role focuses on high-quality audio for ML pipelines and requires close collaboration with French speech data teams.

You will trim, clean, and optimize recordings, ensure consistency across large datasets, and verify pronunciation and naturalness to support training of state-of-the-art TTS systems.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings.
• Proficiency with audio quality standards and repair tools.
• Hands-on experience with iZotope RX and Pro Tools.
• Experience working with high-volume audio datasets.

Responsibilities

• Edit and process French voice recordings for use in TTS and speech AI systems.
• Perform audio cleanup including silence trimming, breath reduction, de-clicking, de-essing, and noise reduction.
• Conduct quality assurance checks for clipping, distortion, background noise, and loudness consistency.
• Ensure audio meets strict technical specifications for ML training pipelines.
• Evaluate recordings for French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, and fluency.
• Collaborate with teams working on French speech datasets and model training workflows.

Skills

French language

Speech editing

Audio QA

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

High-volume datasets

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Job description

Mercor is seeking an Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) fluent in French to edit and prepare French voice data for AI models. This remote contract role focuses on high-quality audio for ML pipelines and requires close collaboration with French speech data teams.

You will trim, clean, and optimize recordings, ensure consistency across large datasets, and verify pronunciation and naturalness to support training of state-of-the-art TTS systems.