Audio/Voice Expert/Speech Quality Evaluator

Salt; Singapore; On-site; SGD 31,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Voice over artist/Speech Quality Evaluator for a four-month contract with renewal potential to support a social media client in Singapore. You will develop and apply speech annotation guidelines, assess samples for emotion and audio quality, and provide actionable feedback.

The role includes direct data annotation and voice recording responsibilities. Ideal candidates will have strong communication and analytical skills, and a collaborative mindset to work with internal teams

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey ideas to internal teams and external vendors.
• Analytical abilities to identify trends, evaluate annotation quality, and provide actionable feedback.
• Collaborative mindset to work with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Adaptability to learn new technologies and processes in a rapidly evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Domain Expertise Advisory: Focused on speech aesthetics; collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in data.
• Guideline Development: Create, edit, and maintain high-quality annotation guidelines tailored to speech aesthetics.
• Quality Assurance: Evaluate and grade the quality of speech annotations; provide feedback to optimize annotation quality.
• Data Annotation: Directly annotate data for key tasks when necessary, including writing prompt responses and judging output quality datasets.
• Expert Evaluation: Assess speech samples for subtle differences in emotion, audio quality, intention, and adherence to task requirements across products.
• Quality Signal: Provide reliable, high-fidelity quality signals for datasets, addressing gaps in QA observed in datasets.
• Voice Recording: Must be comfortable recording your voice.
• Iterative Improvement: Participate in iterative evaluation to refine annotation guidelines and quality standards.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Adaptability

Job description

Salt is looking to hire a Voice over artist/Speech Quality Evaluator for 4 months & renewable contract role with a social media client.

Responsibilities:

• Domain Expertise Advisory: Focused on speech aesthetics; collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in data. Your trained ear will help set the gold standard for quality and rigor in speech annotation.
• Guideline Development: Create, edit, and maintain high-quality annotation guidelines tailored to speech aesthetics. Ensure these guidelines are up-to-date, clear, and concise to enable accurate annotations.
• Quality Assurance: Evaluate and grade the quality of speech annotations. Identify areas of improvement and provide feedback to optimize annotation quality, especially where subtle differences in emotion, audio quality, intention, and adherence are critical.
• Data Annotation: Directly annotate data for key tasks when necessary, including writing prompt responses and judging output quality datasets. Your discriminative skills will provide reliable signals for improving data quality.
• Expert Evaluation: Assess speech samples for subtle differences in emotion, audio quality, intention, and adherence to task requirements across our products.
• Quality Signal: Provide reliable, high-fidelity quality signals for datasets, addressing gaps in quality assurance observed in datasets.
• Voice Recording: Must be comfortable recording your voice
• Iterative Improvement: Participate in processes that use pairwise comparisons and iterative evaluation to refine annotation guidelines and quality standards.

Qualification:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey complex ideas and guidance to internal teams and external vendors.
• Analytical Skills: Exceptional analytical abilities to identify trends, evaluate annotation quality, and provide actionable feedback.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners to achieve shared goals.
• Adaptability: Flexibility and willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes in a rapidly evolving environment.

CEI No: R1659595 / EA No: 07C3147 Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.