Turkish Expert | $45/hr | Remote

The Ai Training Company; Turkey; Remote; TRY 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ai Training Company seeks Turkish language experts, translators, linguists, transcription specialists, localization professionals, and language quality reviewers to support an ambitious remote AI project. You will review Turkish audio and machine-generated transcripts, correct linguistic errors, and create detailed annotations and metadata to ensure outputs reflect natural Turkish with high fidelity.

Ideal candidates have excellent Turkish proficiency, experience with transcription,

Qualifications

• Good proficiency in Turkish
• Experience with transcription, translation, editing, localization, linguistic review, or another language-focused discipline
• Ability to accurately interpret spoken Turkish
• Strong understanding of Turkish grammar, spelling, punctuation, and linguistic conventions
• Ability to recognize subtle language and meaning differences
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to follow detailed transcription and annotation guidelines
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
• Comfortable working independently in a remote environment
• Ability to incorporate reviewer feedback and maintain consistent quality

Responsibilities

• Review and correct machine-generated Turkish transcriptions
• Compare transcripts against original audio for accuracy
• Identify missing, added, or incorrectly transcribed words
• Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and segmentation
• Detect subtle differences in pronunciation and meaning
• Identify regional accents, dialects, speech patterns, and linguistic variation
• Annotate audio and transcripts using structured project guidelines
• Add metadata tags to support speech and language datasets
• Identify speakers, speech characteristics, and audio events where required
• Flag ambiguous, unclear, or low-quality audio
• Review annotations for accuracy and consistency
• Provide clear written explanations of transcription or linguistic issues
• Maintain high-quality standards across large volumes of audio and text
• Collaborate asynchronously with reviewers and project stakeholders
• Incorporate feedback and continuously improve annotation quality

Skills

Turkish proficiency

Attention to detail

Remote collaboration

Education

Linguistics/Translation background

Job description

Turkish Language Experts, Translators, Linguists & Transcription Specialists. Remote AI Project

We are seeking experienced Turkish Language Experts, Translators, Linguists, Transcription Specialists, Localization Professionals, and Language Quality Reviewers to help improve advanced AI systems.

You will review Turkish audio and machine-generated transcripts, correct linguistic errors, create detailed annotations and metadata, and ensure outputs accurately reflect natural spoken and written Turkish.

What You’ll Do

• Review and correct machine-generated Turkish transcriptions
• Compare transcripts against original audio for accuracy
• Identify missing, added, or incorrectly transcribed words
• Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and segmentation
• Detect subtle differences in pronunciation and meaning
• Identify regional accents, dialects, speech patterns, and linguistic variation
• Annotate audio and transcripts using structured project guidelines
• Add metadata tags to support speech and language datasets
• Identify speakers, speech characteristics, and audio events where required
• Flag ambiguous, unclear, or low-quality audio
• Review annotations for accuracy and consistency
• Provide clear written explanations of transcription or linguistic issues
• Maintain high-quality standards across large volumes of audio and text
• Collaborate asynchronously with reviewers and project stakeholders
• Incorporate feedback and continuously improve annotation quality

Who Can Apply

Relevant backgrounds include:

We also welcome:

Linguists, Computational Linguists, Applied Linguists, Sociolinguists, Phoneticians, Phonologists, Language Researchers, Language Analysts, Speech Linguists, Corpus Linguists, and Language Consultants with strong Turkish proficiency.

Translation and localization backgrounds may include:

Turkish Translators, English-to-Turkish Translators, Turkish-to-English Translators, Localization Linguists, Localization Specialists, Translation Reviewers, Translation QA Specialists, Linguistic QA Specialists, LQA Reviewers, Terminologists, and Transcreation Specialists.

Transcription and audio backgrounds may include:

Audio Transcriptionists, Speech Transcriptionists, Media Transcriptionists, Legal Transcriptionists, Broadcast Transcriptionists, Captioners, Subtitlers, Closed Captioning Specialists, Speech Annotators, Audio Annotators, and Voice Data Specialists.

Education backgrounds may include:

Turkish Teachers, Turkish Professors, Turkish Tutors, Language Teachers, University Lecturers, Literature Teachers, Language Researchers, and Academic Professionals with advanced Turkish-language expertise.

Requirements

• Good proficiency in Turkish
• Experience with transcription, translation, editing, localization, linguistic review, annotation, or another language-focused discipline
• Ability to accurately interpret spoken Turkish
• Strong understanding of Turkish grammar, spelling, punctuation, and linguistic conventions
• Ability to recognize subtle language and meaning differences
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to follow detailed transcription and annotation guidelines
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
• Comfortable working independently in a remote environment
• Ability to incorporate reviewer feedback and maintain consistent quality

Preferred Background

• Professional Turkish transcription experience
• Experience correcting automatic speech recognition or machine-generated transcripts
• Linguistics, Translation, Turkish , Communications, Journalism, or related academic background
• Professional localization or translation experience
• Linguistic quality assurance experience
• Experience with audio annotation or speech datasets
• Experience applying metadata tags or structured linguistic labels
• Experience identifying regional accents or dialect variation
• Experience with phonetics or phonology
• Experience working with speech recognition technologies
• Experience reviewing large language or audio datasets
• Experience working with multicultural or distributed teams

This opportunity is ideal for Turkish-language professionals who can listen carefully to audio and identify exactly what was said, how it was said, which linguistic details matter, and where an automated transcription or annotation system has made a mistake. We are a referral partner of the client.