Remote French TTS Audio Engineer for AI Data

Mercor; Zürich; On-site; CHF 46,000 - 66,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role focuses on French speech audio for TTS and AI systems, requiring a native or near-native French speaker with strong editing skills.

You will edit, clean, and QA recordings, ensuring high-quality audio for ML pipelines, and collaborate with French dataset and model teams. Compensation is $50 per hour, and the position offers fully remote work.

Qualifications

• 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 and Pro Tools.
• Experience working with high-volume audio datasets.
• Ability to identify artifacts and fix defects in audio.

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.

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role focuses on French speech audio for TTS and AI systems, requiring a native or near-native French speaker with strong editing skills.

You will edit, clean, and QA recordings, ensuring high-quality audio for ML pipelines, and collaborate with French dataset and model teams. Compensation is $50 per hour, and the position offers fully remote work.