Expert Audio Transcriber, Hindi

Perle; India; Remote; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Perle is hiring expert Hindi transcribers to convert native-speaker audio into precise, time-aligned transcripts. You will determine orthography, speaker attribution, and code-switching decisions within Perle's style guide.

The role includes collaboration with QA and occasional calibration sessions to maintain quality. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of professional transcription experience, strong Hindi accuracy, and comfort with Hinglish and regional accents.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in Hindi with residence in a Hindi-speaking region.
• High accuracy reading and writing in Devanagari script.
• Strong ear for regional Hindi accents and Hinglish code-switching.
• Two years of professional transcription, captioning, court reporting, broadcast, translation, or linguistic annotation experience.
• Demonstrated accuracy at the word level under deadline pressure.
• Comfortable with web-based annotation platforms and variable-speed audio playback.
• Reliable high-speed internet, quality headphones, and a quiet workspace.
• Ability to commit to defined volume per week during active project phases.

Responsibilities

• Transcribe audio recordings into accurate, time-aligned written text following Perle's project-specific style guide.
• Apply correct conventions for speaker identification, overlapping speech, disfluencies, fillers, false starts, and non-speech events such as laughter, background noise, and music.
• Make principled orthographic decisions for dialectal, colloquial, and code-switched speech.
• Flag ambiguous segments, uncertain speakers, and audio quality issues using project conventions.
• Self-review every submission against Perle's quality bar before delivery.
• Engage with QA reviewers on edge cases, calibration sessions, and style guide updates.

Skills

Hindi fluency

Devanagari literacy

Hinglish transcription

Transcription experience

Deadline-driven accuracy

Annotation platforms

Reliable internet and hardware

Volume commitment

Tools

Annotation platforms

Job description

About Perle

Perle is an AI infrastructure company building expert-driven training data, evaluation systems, and applied AI products for the world's leading labs and enterprises. Our partners include xAI, Samsung, ELM, and Unisys. Headquartered in San Francisco with experts across more than forty markets, we specialize in the work that requires real human judgment: domain expertise, linguistic nuance, and cultural fidelity that generic data vendors cannot deliver.

The Role

We are hiring expert Hindi transcribers to convert audio recordings of native speakers into precise, conventionally formatted written transcripts. The work powers speech recognition, dialogue, and evaluation systems for major AI labs. Audio ranges from clean studio recordings to natural conversational speech in real-world acoustic conditions.

You will be working at the level of expert linguistic judgment. This is not data entry. Decisions about orthography, code-switching, speaker attribution, disfluencies, and non-speech events shape the quality of every model trained on your output.

Dialect and Scope

Standard Hindi (Khariboli) and its regional spoken varieties across the Hindi Belt. Project audio includes formal registers, conversational Hindi, and natural Hindi‑English code-switching commonly known as Hinglish.

Primary speaker regions: Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan.

What You Will Do

• Transcribe audio recordings into accurate, time‑aligned written text following Perle's project‑specific style guide
• Apply correct conventions for speaker identification, overlapping speech, disfluencies, fillers, false starts, and non‑speech events such as laughter, background noise, and music
• Make principled orthographic decisions for dialectal, colloquial, and code‑switched speech
• Flag ambiguous segments, uncertain speakers, and audio quality issues using project conventions
• Self‑review every submission against Perle's quality bar before delivery
• Engage with QA reviewers on edge cases, calibration sessions, and style guide updates

Must Have

• Native fluency in Hindi with lifelong residence or deep immersion in a Hindi‑speaking region
• High accuracy reading and writing in Devanagari script
• Strong ear for regional Hindi accents and willingness to transcribe them following project conventions
• Comfortable transcribing Hinglish code-switching with consistent script-mixing or Romanization rules
• At least two years of professional transcription, captioning, court reporting, broadcast, translation, or linguistic annotation experience
• Demonstrated accuracy at the word level under deadline pressure
• Comfortable with web-based annotation platforms and variable-speed audio playback
• Reliable high-speed internet, quality headphones, and a quiet workspace
• Ability to commit to defined volume per week during active project phases

Nice To Have

• Background in Hindi linguistics, journalism, translation, education, or court reporting
• Prior experience annotating Hindi or Indic-language speech data
• Working knowledge of Urdu, Punjabi, or other related Indic languages for cross-lingual audio
• Familiarity with IPA or other phonetic transcription systems
• Experience with verbatim versus clean-verbatim transcription conventions

How We Work With You

• Paid pilot task before full onboarding so both sides can calibrate
• Per-task or per-minute compensation, with rates tied to audio complexity and turnaround
• Flexible scheduling, with volume scaling up and down based on active client projects
• Direct working relationship with Perle's linguistic leads and QA team
• Eligible for invitation to additional Perle expert projects across related domains

Equal Opportunity

Perle hires experts on the basis of skill, language proficiency, and demonstrated quality. We welcome applicants from every background and every region where our target languages are spoken.