Music & Sound Effects Data Captioning Specialist (Bahasa Malaysia)

TELUS Digital; Surabaya ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ; On-site; IDR 30,000,000 - 42,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital seeks a skilled labeler to annotate music and sound data, focusing on genres, instruments, and cultural sounds. You will apply natural expressions aligned with the target language region and perform rigorous self-checks.

Applicants should have native Bahasa Malaysia, proficiency in English for work communication, and a background in music production or sound design. Attention to detail and strong listening skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Native level Bahasa Malaysia proficiency.
• Able to use English for work communication.
• Background in music production, composition, or sound design.
• Strong listening discrimination across instrumentation and rhythm.
• Ability to identify genres and traditional instruments.

Responsibilities

• Perform fine-grained labeling on music and sound effects data.
• Identify genres, instruments, rhythm, and emotions.
• Complete self-checks and quality checks per guidelines.
• Analyze rejected cases and review similar issues.

Skills

Native Bahasa Malaysia

English working language

Music production background

Sound design / audio editing

Music discrimination skills

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

• Bahasa Malaysia: 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