Audiobook QA Expert — Dutch

Mercor; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 16,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Part-time schedule

20 hours per week

Job summary

Mercor is seeking native Dutch speakers to evaluate AI-narrated Dutch audiobooks for the Netherlands market. You will listen like a devoted audiobook fan but with analytical focus to flag narration slips for model improvement.

The role is remote and part-time, about 20 hours per week. You can work from anywhere, preferably in Dutch-speaking regions, and you will collaborate with a small team to provide precise feedback and logging of issues.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in Dutch (Netherlands).
• Working proficiency in English to report clearly.
• Experience with annotation, labeling, transcription, or proofreading is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Listen to AI-narrated Dutch audiobooks and assess naturalness, accuracy, and enjoyment.
• Log errors such as mispronunciations, skipped or misread words, or abnormal phrasing.
• Mark exact spans of issues using review tooling and categorize them.
• Report on overall listener satisfaction and where narration feels natural vs. breaks.
• Maintain focus and consistency across long listening sessions.

Skills

Dutch native fluency (Netherlands)

English working proficiency

Attention to detail

Job description

Help make the next generation of AI-narrated audiobooks sound genuinely human.

1. Overview

We're building a team of native Dutch speakers who love audiobooks to help evaluate AI-narrated (text-to-speech) audiobooks in Dutch (Netherlands). You'll listen the way a real audiobook fan does — but with a careful, analytical ear — and flag the moments where the narration slips, so the underlying models can be made better.

This is remote, part-time work at roughly 20 hours per week (about 4 hours per day). You can be based anywhere, though we prefer people living in a region where Dutch is natively spoken.

2. What You'll Do

• Listen to AI-narrated audiobooks in Dutch and assess how natural, accurate, and enjoyable the narration is.
• Spot and log errors in the synthesized speech — skipped, added, or mispronounced words; numbers read incorrectly; abbreviations expanded wrongly; unnatural phrasing or intonation; audio glitches and artifacts.
• Categorize each issue and mark the exact span where it occurs, using our review tooling.
• Report on overall listener satisfaction and where the narration feels natural versus where it breaks the experience.
• Work consistently and carefully across many hours of audio without losing attention to detail.

3. Who We're Looking For

• Native or near-native fluency in Dutch (Netherlands), and an active, genuine audiobook listener — someone who listens regularly and has real opinions about what makes a good listen.
• Enough working English to report clearly and communicate with the team (you do not need to be bilingual).
• Some experience with annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, linguistics, or other detail-oriented review work.
• A sharp, patient ear and the discipline to stay accurate over long listening sessions.
• Reliable availability of about 20 hours per week on a part-time basis.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience on AI training-data, model-evaluation, or audio/QA annotation projects.
• A background in language, editing, voice, or audio production.