Remote French Speech Audio Engineer for TTS/Voice ML

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

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.