Audio Transcription Specialist

Expertious AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 14,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Expertious.ai is seeking an Audio Transcription & Alignment Specialist to work remotely on an hourly contract (10–40 hrs/week). You will correct transcripts and align timing boundaries with millisecond precision in a specialized editor, contributing to frontier speech systems.

Ideal candidates are native or near-native English speakers with exceptional listening skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to follow strict style guidelines while working independently and

Qualifications

• Native or near-native English fluency with strong listening skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and high accuracy in transcription.
• Ability to follow a strict style guide and apply it consistently.
• Experience with specialized labeling tools is a plus.
• Reliable, self-directed worker who can meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Correct transcripts for accuracy, spelling, and grammar.
• Align word and segment boundaries to audio with millisecond precision.
• Edit text and timing within a web-based labeling tool.
• Apply detailed style guidelines consistently across tasks.
• Handle challenging cases like overlapping speech and noise.
• Maintain high quality across a fast task turnaround.

Skills

English fluency

Attention to detail

Style-guide adherence

Fast learner

Independent work

Deadline-driven

Accent/dialect understanding

Job description

Audio Transcription & Alignment Specialist

Expertious.ai · Hourly contract · Remote · 10–40 hrs/week

About the role

Speech models break on the things humans handle without thinking. Crosstalk. A swallowed consonant. The half-second where a false start turns into a real word. A model only learns where one word ends and the next begins if someone marked that boundary correctly in the first place.

That's this job. You'll work inside a proprietary editor, correcting word-level transcripts and aligning timing boundaries to the millisecond — word by word, frame by frame. The work is exacting and it is directly upstream of how well these systems hear people.

We're hiring in Sydney because the city's media, film, and language services industries turn out people with exactly this ear. If you've done closed captioning, broadcast transcription, subtitling, linguistics, or audio annotation, you already have the instincts. No AI background required.

Fully remote. You set your own hours.

What you'll do

• Correct word-level transcripts for accuracy, spelling, grammar, and strict style conventions
• Align word and segment boundaries to the spoken audio at millisecond precision
• Edit text and timing simultaneously inside a specialized web-based labeling tool
• Apply detailed style guides consistently across every task, without drift
• Resolve the hard cases: overlapping speech, filler words, false starts, background noise, unintelligible audio
• Hold quality across high task volume and tight per-task turnarounds
• Work independently and asynchronously
  

Who you are

• Native or near-native English fluency with excellent listening comprehension
• Detail-obsessed at a level most people find excessive — you hear what others skip past
• Consistent under rules: you follow a style guide exactly, on task one and task four hundred
• Quick to learn specialized editing interfaces
• Methodical and patient — the small things are the job, not a distraction from it
• Reliable without supervision, on deadline
• Able to parse accents, dialects, mumbling, and overlapping speakers
  

Nice to have

• Closed captioning, broadcast transcription, subtitling, or court reporting
• Linguistics, phonetics, or audio data annotation
• Waveform or caption tooling — Praat, ELAN, Subtitle Edit, or similar
• Speech-to-text QA or audio post-productionPrior annotation work against detailed guidelines
• Fast, accurate typing
  

Why this one

• The audio you touch trains frontier speech systems built with leading research labs
• Fully remote, genuinely flexible — you choose when and how much
• Freelance autonomy, but the work has structure and a point to it
• Your captioning or linguistics background is the qualification here, not a detour from it
• Ongoing work and contract extensions as new projects open