Malay Speech AI Engineer - Natural Voice & ASR Expert

TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions; Kota Bharu; On-site; MYR 48,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital invites a passionate AI Speech & Audio Specialist to join our global AI community. You will contribute to developing and refining ASR, TTS, voice AI, and audio ML systems, leveraging your background in audio production, linguistics, or phonetics to ensure natural, accurate voice experiences across diverse languages and cultures.

You will evaluate AI-generated speech, review ASR outputs, perform professional audio editing, and help validate high-quality speech datasets for model

Qualifications

• Minimum of one of the following: Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science (Speech/AI focus), Related audio or speech fields
• Experience with ASR, TTS or voice technology is a plus
• Experience in audio editing and quality assessment desirable

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation accuracy, rhythm, tone, emotion, and overall voice quality
• Review and improve speech recognition outputs (ASR) by identifying transcription errors, pronunciation issues, accents, and linguistic nuances
• Perform professional audio editing tasks including segmentation, trimming, noise reduction, silence adjustment, and quality enhancement
• Analyze audio recordings using waveform and spectrogram-based tools to identify quality issues
• Support the creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets used for AI model training and evaluation
• Review voice recordings for clarity, consistency, articulation, and technical quality
• Perform audio quality checks including loudness levels, background noise detection, clipping, distortion, and export specifications
• Support voice AI projects including TTS, ASR, voice generation, voice similarity, voice mimicry, and conversational AI evaluation
• Apply expertise in phonetics, linguistics, audio engineering, or speech technology to improve AI-generated voice experiences

Skills

Audio production

Linguistics

Phonetics

Speech technology

Audio engineering

Education

Audio Engineering

Sound Engineering

Music Technology

Linguistics

Phonetics

Speech-Language Pathology

Computational Linguistics

Computer Science (Speech/AI focus)

Related audio or speech fields

Tools

Waveform analysis

Spectrogram analysis

Job description

TELUS Digital invites a passionate AI Speech & Audio Specialist to join our global AI community. You will contribute to developing and refining ASR, TTS, voice AI, and audio ML systems, leveraging your background in audio production, linguistics, or phonetics to ensure natural, accurate voice experiences across diverse languages and cultures.

You will evaluate AI-generated speech, review ASR outputs, perform professional audio editing, and help validate high-quality speech datasets for model