French Speech Audio Engineer

mercor; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 57,000 - 69,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) for a contract role focused on French voice recordings. The engineer will edit and process French audio for TTS systems, performing cleanup and QA to ensure compliance with ML training pipelines.

The ideal candidate will be a native/near-native French speaker with experience editing speech and familiarity with iZotope RX or Pro Tools. Remote work is offered with potential collaboration on large French datasets.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition for French speech nuances.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings.

Responsibilities

• Edit and process French voice recordings for use in TTS and speech AI systems.
• Perform audio cleanup including silence trimming, breath reduction/removal, 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 on French speech datasets, voice talent recordings, and model training workflows.

Skills

French language editing

Speech audio quality

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Job description

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/removal, 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 on French speech datasets , voice talent recordings, 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 iZotope RX, Pro Tools , or similar audio restoration software .
• 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 , labeling, or evaluation processes.
• Experience directing or editing French voice talent recordings .