Swedish Speech & Audio AI Specialist

TELUS Digital AI Community; Sweden; Remote; SEK 201,000 - 537,000; Part time

Job summary

TELUS Digital AI Community seeks an AI Speech Quality Specialist to evaluate and validate speech AI systems, ensuring natural TTS, accurate ASR, and high-quality datasets. You will contribute to model improvements by providing structured feedback and participating in data validation.

The role is remote and contractor-based, offering flexible scheduling and compensation per hour for global projects with a diverse team of experts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 2+ years in audio production or AI speech projects.
• Native-level Swedish required; professional English required for technical instructions and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation, rhythm, tone and emotion.
• Identify transcription and pronunciation issues in ASR outputs.
• Analyze audio using waveform and spectrogram tools to identify quality issues.
• Provide structured feedback for model improvement.
• Apply audio restoration techniques to optimize samples.
• Prepare and validate speech content for training pipelines.
• Apply phonetics and linguistics to identify accents and languages.
• Review recordings for clarity and consistency.
• Support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets.
• Annotate and label audio for dataset integrity.
• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity and generation projects.
• Document findings to inform model improvements.

Skills

Audio evaluation

Linguistics

Phonetics

Dataset validation

Quality feedback

Project documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Audio Engineering or Linguistics or CS (Speech/AI focus)

2+ years professional experience in audio production/AI speech projects

Tools

Adobe Audition

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Audacity

Job description

As an AI Speech Quality Specialist in our Global AI Community, you evaluate and validate speech AI systems—ensuring machine-generated voices sound natural, speech recognition captures intent accurately, and voice AI models learn from high-quality datasets. Your work directly impacts millions of users' voice-based AI experiences.

What You'll Do

Audio Evaluation & Quality Assessment

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation, rhythm, tone, and emotion
• Identify transcription errors, pronunciation issues, and linguistic nuances in speech recognition (ASR) outputs
• Analyze audio using waveform and spectrogram tools to identify quality issues
• Provide structured feedback for model improvement

Audio Editing & Technical Proficiency

• Apply audio restoration techniques to optimize speech samples
• Prepare and validate speech content for training pipelines

Speech Linguistics & Dataset Validation

• Apply phonetics and linguistics expertise to identify speech variations across accents and languages
• Review voice recordings for clarity, consistency, and technical quality
• Support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets
• Perform audio annotation and labeling for dataset integrity

Voice AI Project Support

• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity, voice generation, and conversational AI evaluation projects
• Contribute to quality assurance workflows for voice technology projects
• Document findings to inform model improvement

Qualification path

Mandatory Qualifications

One of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, or Computer Science (Speech/AI focus)
• OR 2+ years professional experience in: audio production, dialogue editing, voice recording, podcast/audio post-production, speech dataset creation, or AI speech projects

Language Requirements

• Native-level Swedish(C1/C2+) – Required for pronunciation and linguistic accuracy
• Professional English (B1+) – Required for technical instructions and documentation

Technical Competency

• Hands-on experience with at least one professional audio tool: Adobe Audition, iZotope RX, Pro Tools, Reaper, Audacity, Logic Pro, Cubase, or equivalent DAW
• Working knowledge of: audio editing/restoration, noise reduction, spectrogram analysis, waveform interpretation, and audio quality assessment

Completion of subject-specific qualification assessment (practical audio/speech evaluation)

Identity verification (IDV) process – Required as soon as possible after application completion

Payment:

Currently, pay rates for experts range from $15- $40 USD per hour

Our Payment terms are defined for each project.

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.

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.

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.