Voice AI Linguist – English Dialect & Prosody Specialist

TELUS Digital AI Community; Manila; On-site; PHP 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital AI Community in Manila seeks an English linguist expert to evaluate and validate speech AI systems from a linguistic perspective. You will assess naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, and semantic accuracy to support high-quality TTS, ASR, and voice AI datasets.

You will provide structured feedback, annotate data, and document linguistic patterns across dialects to improve model performance while ensuring cultural authenticity for a global user base.

Qualifications

• Native-level English (C1/C2+) for accurate phonological and semantic analysis
• Professional English (B1+) for technical docs and collaboration
• Assessment of speech naturalness, grammar, semantics and pragmatics

Responsibilities

• Analyze AI-generated speech for naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, intonation and emotional register
• Identify transcription errors and dialect features in ASR outputs
• Provide linguistic feedback to improve TTS, ASR and voice AI datasets
• Annotate data with phonetic transcription and prosodic marks
• Document regional variations to inform dataset diversity

Skills

English phonetics

Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Prosody analysis

Discourse coherence

Dialectology

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related

2+ years linguistics or speech projects

Tools

IPA notation

SAMPA

Spectrogram analysis

Job description

TELUS Digital AI Community in Manila seeks an English linguist expert to evaluate and validate speech AI systems from a linguistic perspective. You will assess naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, and semantic accuracy to support high-quality TTS, ASR, and voice AI datasets.

You will provide structured feedback, annotate data, and document linguistic patterns across dialects to improve model performance while ensuring cultural authenticity for a global user base.