Remote Malay Speech & Audio AI Specialist

TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions; Kuantan; On-site; MYR 34,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital invites skilled professionals to join its AI Community as an AI Speech & Audio Specialist. You will contribute to ASR, TTS, Voice AI, and audio ML systems, evaluating and improving datasets and model outputs.

The role emphasizes audio production, phonetics, linguistics, and voice technology across a global, remote network. Independent contractor engagement with flexible scheduling is offered, with pay rates ranging by project complexity and locale.

Qualifications

• Minimum one of the following educational paths in audio/speech fields or related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computer Science (Speech/AI focus), or related.
• Professional experience in voice recording.

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 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, articulation, and technical quality.
• Perform audio quality checks including loudness, noise, clipping, distortion, and export specs.
• Support voice AI projects including TTS, ASR, voice generation, and conversational AI evaluation.
• Apply expertise in phonetics, linguistics, audio engineering, or speech technology to improve AI-generated voice experiences.

Skills

Audio editing

Linguistics

Phonetics

Speech analysis

Voice technology

Education

Audio Engineering

Sound Engineering

Phonetics

Computer Science (Speech/AI focus)

Tools

iZotope RX

Reaper

Audacity

Logic Pro

Cubase

Job description

TELUS Digital invites skilled professionals to join its AI Community as an AI Speech & Audio Specialist. You will contribute to ASR, TTS, Voice AI, and audio ML systems, evaluating and improving datasets and model outputs.

The role emphasizes audio production, phonetics, linguistics, and voice technology across a global, remote network. Independent contractor engagement with flexible scheduling is offered, with pay rates ranging by project complexity and locale.