Tagalog Native : AI Speech & Audio Specialist

TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions; Philippines; Teletrabalho; PHP 394 000 - 1 050 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Remote work

Resumo da oferta

TELUS Digital AI Community is seeking contributors to evaluate and fine-tune AI speech systems. You will assess naturalness, pronunciation and tone in TTS/ASR workflows and perform professional audio editing to enhance quality.

Required are native Tagalog and professional English, plus background in audio/linguistics. This is a remote independent contractor role, with flexible project engagements and global collaboration.

Qualificações

• Must have native-level Tagalog and professional-level English.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in audio/speech field or related experience.
• Experience in audio production, voice editing, or AI speech projects.

Responsabilidades

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness and pronunciation.
• Review and improve speech recognition outputs (ASR) including accents and linguistic nuances.
• Perform professional audio editing: segmentation, trimming, noise reduction, and quality enhancement.
• Analyze recordings using waveform and spectrogram tools to identify issues.
• Support creation/validation of speech datasets for AI model training.
• Review voice recordings for clarity, articulation and technical quality.
• Conduct audio quality checks: loudness, background noise, clipping, distortion.
• Support voice AI projects including TTS, ASR, voice generation and evaluation.
• Apply phonetics, linguistics, audio engineering to improve AI voice experiences.

Conhecimentos

Tagalog fluency

English proficiency

Phonetics knowledge

Linguistics background

Audio evaluation

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Audio/Speech/Related field

Experience in audio or speech projects

Ferramentas

Adobe Audition

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Reaper

Audacity

Logic Pro

Cubase

Descrição da oferta de emprego

TELUS Digital AI Community

Our global AI Community is a vibrant network of more than one million contributors from diverse backgrounds who help customers collect, enhance, train, translate, and localize content to build better AI models. Become part of our growing community and contribute to the development of innovative AI technologies used by some of the world’s largest brands.

About the Role:

At TELUS Digital, we are advancing the future of Artificial Intelligence by helping AI systems understand, process, and generate human speech with greater accuracy and naturalness.

Key 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.

Qualification path

Mandatory Qualifications:

Must Speak Tagalog at a native level and English at professional level as guidelines are in English.

There will be an assessment / qualifier post application completed stage and an identity document verification (IDV) needs to be completed as soon as possible. You will receive the email after the application is completed.

Education / Professional Background:

Minimum of one of the following:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in, Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science (Speech/AI focus), Related audio or speech fields.

OR

Professional experience in: Audio production, Sound design, Dialogue editing, Voice recording, Podcast/audio post-production, Speech data creation or AI speech projects.

Technical Experience:

Experience with at least one professional audio tool:

• Adobe Audition
• iZotope RX
• Pro Tools
• Reaper
• Audacity
• Logic Pro
• Cubase
• Other Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)

Knowledge of:

• Audio editing and restoration
• Noise reduction
• Speech segmentation
• Spectrogram analysis
• Audio quality assessment
• Voice/audio processing workflows

Language Requirements:

• Native-level proficiency in Tagalog (C1/C2+) is preferred for language-specific projects.
• Ability to identify pronunciation, accent, and linguistic nuances.
• English proficiency sufficient to understand technical instructions and project guidelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with:

• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
• Text-to-Speech (TTS)
• Voice AI
• Speech datasets
• Audio annotation
• Voice cloning or voice mimicry projects
• ADR / dubbing
• Localization audio
• Broadcast or media production
• AI model evaluation

Assessment:

To join the TELUS Digital AI Community, candidates will complete:

• Subject-specific qualification assessment
• Practical audio/speech evaluation (where applicable)
• Identity verification process

The assessment may include:

• Audio quality evaluation
• Speech recognition review
• Audio editing tasks
• Voice quality analysis
• Linguistic accuracy evaluation

Payment:

Currently, pay rates for specialists range from $4.50 – $12 USD per hour depending on expertise, project complexity, and market requirements. *Location and language is directly dependent.

Payment terms and rates are defined separately for each project engagement.

Why Join the TELUS Digital AI Community:

• Community Connection: Work remotely as part of a 1M+ diverse global AI Community of contributors and experts.
• Impactful Expertise: Use your native language and academic degree to shape real-world AI systems and products used by millions every day.
• Hands-on Innovation: Gain experience in the latest AI research, evaluation, and fine-tuning methodologies.
• Global Collaboration: Collaborate with a network of specialists across 20+ domains and 500+ languages and dialects.
• Flexible Engagement: Manage your own schedule while making a meaningful impact on the future of technology.

Independent Contractor Relationship:

This opportunity is offered on an independent contractor basis. Contributors have the flexibility to choose when and how much they work, subject to project availability and quality requirements. This opportunity is not and should not be construed as creating an employment relationship with TELUS Digital.