French Speech Audio Engineer for TTS Data Prep & QA

Mercor; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor in Zürich, Switzerland is seeking audio engineers with deep experience editing and QA’ing French voice recordings for TTS and ML datasets. You will prepare high-quality French audio, ensure clarity, consistency, and technical compliance across large volumes, and evaluate pronunciation, naturalness, and fluency.

You will perform audio cleanup (silence trimming, de-essing, noise reduction), run quality checks for clipping, noise, and loudness, and collaborate with teams across speech

Qualifikationen

• Native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition for French speech nuances
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings (not just music production)
• Strong understanding of speech audio quality standards and common issues in recorded dialogue
• Hands-on experience with tools like 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 or structured workflows

Aufgaben

• 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 and distortion, background noise and artifacts, and loudness consistency
• Ensure audio meets strict technical specifications for ML training pipelines
• Evaluate recordings for French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, and fluency
• Work with large batches of recordings, maintaining consistency and throughput
• Collaborate with teams working on French speech datasets, voice talent recordings, and model training workflows

Kenntnisse

Native or near-native French speaker

Experience editing speech or voice rec

Audio quality standards knowledge

iZotope RX / Pro Tools

High-volume audio datasets handling

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Jobbeschreibung

Mercor in Zürich, Switzerland is seeking audio engineers with deep experience editing and QA’ing French voice recordings for TTS and ML datasets. You will prepare high-quality French audio, ensure clarity, consistency, and technical compliance across large volumes, and evaluate pronunciation, naturalness, and fluency.

You will perform audio cleanup (silence trimming, de-essing, noise reduction), run quality checks for clipping, noise, and loudness, and collaborate with teams across speech