Speech Audio Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $50/hr

mercor; Belgique; Remote; EUR 55.000 - 74.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

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.

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

French language

Speech editing

Audio QA

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

High-volume datasets

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Jobbeschreibung

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position

Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) – French

Type

Contract

Compensation

$50/hour

Location

Remote

Role 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 detailed 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.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition for French speech nuances.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings .
• Strong understanding of speech audio quality standards .
• Hands-on experience with tools like iZotope RX, Pro Tools .
• Ability to identify and fix artifacts, inconsistencies, and technical defects in audio.
• Experience working with high-volume audio datasets .

Preferred

• Experience working with TTS vendors or platforms .
• Prior involvement in speech ML, voice AI, or dataset creation/annotation workflows .
• Familiarity with audio QA pipelines .
• Experience directing or editing French voice talent recordings .