Indonesian Speech & AI Audio Specialist (TTS/ASR QA)

TELUS Digital AI Community; Surabaya ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ; Hybrid; IDR 90,000,000 - 150,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital AI Community seeks an Indonesian Speech & Audio AI Specialist to evaluate and validate speech AI systems, ensuring machine-generated voices sound natural and recognition captures intent accurately. You will validate datasets and support model improvements for voice-based experiences across millions of users.

Native Indonesian proficiency and professional English are required, with hands-on audio editing experience using common DAWs and analytic tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, or CS (Speech/AI focus).
• OR 2+ years professional experience in audio production, dialogue editing, voice recording, podcast/audio post-production, speech dataset creation, or AI speech projects.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation, rhythm, tone and emotion.
• Identify transcription errors, pronunciation issues, and linguistic nuances in ASR outputs.
• Conduct audio quality checks (loudness, noise, clipping, distortion, compliance).
• Analyze audio using waveform and spectrogram tools to identify quality issues.
• Provide structured feedback for model improvement.
• Perform professional audio editing (segmentation, trimming, noise reduction, enhancement).
• Prepare and validate speech content for training pipelines.
• Apply phonetics and linguistics expertise to identify speech variations across accents and languages.
• Review voice recordings for clarity, consistency, and technical quality.
• Support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets.
• Perform audio annotation and labeling for dataset integrity.
• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity, voice generation, and conversational AI evaluation projects.
• Contribute to quality assurance workflows for voice technology projects.
• Document findings to inform model improvement.

Skills

Native Indonesian

Professional English

Audio editing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Audio Engineering / Speech AI focus

2+ years experience in audio production or AI speech projects

Tools

Adobe Audition

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Reaper

Audacity

Logic Pro

Cubase

Job description

TELUS Digital AI Community seeks an Indonesian Speech & Audio AI Specialist to evaluate and validate speech AI systems, ensuring machine-generated voices sound natural and recognition captures intent accurately. You will validate datasets and support model improvements for voice-based experiences across millions of users.

Native Indonesian proficiency and professional English are required, with hands-on audio editing experience using common DAWs and analytic tools.