Data Captioning Specialist for Sound and Music (Japanese Language)

TELUS Digital; Surabaya ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ; On-site; IDR 48,000,000 - 60,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital in Surabaya, Indonesia (remote collaborations possible) is seeking skilled data labelers for fine-grained music and sound data annotation. You will identify genres, instruments, rhythms, and emotional cues, ensuring labeling aligns with regional linguistic conventions and cultural nuances.

Responsibilities include rigorous self-checks, analyzing causes of rejected cases, and applying guidelines to improve labeling accuracy across similar tasks.

Qualifications

• Experience in music production, composition, or related audio fields.
• Ability to identify music genres, instruments, and culture-specific sounds used in target language regions.
• Strong listening and discrimination skills across tempo, timbre, rhythm, emotion, and form.

Responsibilities

• Label data with instrument IDs, genres, rhythm patterns, emotions, and music structure.
• Identify traditional instruments and culture-specific sounds for the target region.
• Perform self-checks and quality reviews; analyze rejected cases and improve processes.

Skills

Music listening

Auditory discrimination

Rhythm analysis

Cultural context awareness

Education

Music production background

Tools

Audio editing

Sound design

Job description

About the role

Perform fine-grained labeling on data such as music and sound effects, including instrument identification, music genre, rhythm pattern, emotion, and music structure. Identify music genres, traditional instruments, and culture-specific sounds unique to the target language region, and use natural expressions that conform to the conventions of the target language.

Key responsibilities

• Perform fine-grained labeling on data such as music and sound effects, including but not limited to instrument identification, music genre, rhythm pattern, emotion, and music structure
• Identify music genres, traditional instruments, and culture-specific sounds unique to the target language region, and use natural expressions that conform to the conventions of the target language
• Complete self-checks and quality checks according to the guidelines
• Analyze the causes of rejected bad cases, revise them, and review similar issues across completed work

About you

• Japanese: Native speaker of the target language , or native-level proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing
• Able to judge common regional accents, colloquial expressions, and cultural context
• Able to use English as the working communication language
• Professional background in music production, composition, arrangement, mixing, or related fields; or sound effect production, audio editing, sound design, film and television sound
• Strong music listening and discrimination skills, able to distinguish musical characteristics across instrumentation, rhythm, tonality, form, emotion, and style
• Able to identify popular music, film/TV scores, traditional music, and representative instruments from the target cultural region
• Able to identify common instruments, performance techniques, ensemble configurations, and section changes
• Professional audio discrimination skills, able to identify realistic sound effects, non-realistic special effects, off-screen sound, and obvious vocal post-processing effects in mixed audio tracks
• Able to accurately identify audio issues such as noise, distortion, hum/background noise, and abnormal reverberation