Audiobook QA Expert — Italian

Mercor; United States; Hybrid; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a team of native Italian speakers to evaluate AI-narrated audiobooks in Italian (Italy). You will listen like a true audiobook fan but with a careful, analytical ear to flag moments where narration slips.

This remote, part-time role requires about 20 hours per week. You'll log errors, categorize issues, and report on overall listening satisfaction, helping improve AI narration quality for Italian-language content.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in Italian (Italy).
• Able to report clearly in English to the team.
• Experience with annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, or linguistics.
• Sharp, patient ear and consistent accuracy over long listening sessions.
• Reliable availability of about 20 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Listen to AI-narrated audiobooks in Italian and assess naturalness, accuracy, and enjoyment.
• Spot and log errors in synthesized speech: skipped, added, mispronounced words.
• Categorize issues and mark exact spans using review tooling.
• Report on listener satisfaction and natural vs. broken narration sections.
• Work consistently across many hours of audio with attention to detail.

Skills

Italian native speaker

English communication

Annotation experience

Attention to detail

Part-time availability

Job description

Help make the next generation of AI-narrated audiobooks sound genuinely human.

1. Overview

We're building a team of native Italian speakers who love audiobooks to help evaluate AI-narrated (text-to-speech) audiobooks in Italian (Italy). You'll listen the way a real audiobook fan does — but with a careful, analytical ear — and flag the moments where the narration slips, so the underlying models can be made better.

This is remote, part-time work at roughly 20 hours per week (about 4 hours per day). You can be based anywhere, though we prefer people living in a region where Italian is natively spoken.

2. What You'll Do

• Listen to AI-narrated audiobooks in Italian and assess how natural, accurate, and enjoyable the narration is.
• Spot and log errors in the synthesized speech — skipped, added, or mispronounced words; numbers read incorrectly; abbreviations expanded wrongly; unnatural phrasing or intonation; audio glitches and artifacts.
• Categorize each issue and mark the exact span where it occurs, using our review tooling.
• Report on overall listener satisfaction and where the narration feels natural versus where it breaks the experience.
• Work consistently and carefully across many hours of audio without losing attention to detail.

3. Who We're Looking For

• Native or near-native fluency in Italian (Italy), and an active, genuine audiobook listener — someone who listens regularly and has real opinions about what makes a good listen.
• Enough working English to report clearly and communicate with the team (you do not need to be bilingual).
• Some experience with annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, linguistics, or other detail-oriented review work.
• A sharp, patient ear and the discipline to stay accurate over long listening sessions.
• Reliable availability of about 20 hours per week on a part-time basis.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience on AI training-data, model-evaluation, or audio/QA annotation projects.
• A background in language, editing, voice, or audio production.