French Speech and TTS Audio Engineer

SaidGig; New York (NY); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

SaidGig is seeking a remote French audio editor to prepare high-quality speech data for TTS and speech AI systems. You will edit, clean, and QC French voice recordings to ensure clarity, naturalness, and suitability for machine learning pipelines.

The ideal candidate has strong listening skills, experience with audio restoration tools, and a proven ability to handle large volumes while maintaining strict quality standards in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native French fluency and ability to evaluate pronunciation.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings beyond music production.
• Familiar with speech-audio quality standards and common issues.

Responsibilities

• Edit and process French voice recordings for speech and TTS.
• Clean audio by trimming silence and reducing noise.
• Perform quality checks for clipping, distortion, and loudness.
• Verify files meet ML training specifications.
• Assess pronunciation, fluency, and naturalness.
• Maintain throughput with large batches.
• Collaborate on datasets and model-training workflows.

Skills

French fluency

Attention to detail

Audio editing

Quality control

High-volume datasets

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Job description

Help prepare high-quality French speech data for text-to-speech and speech AI systems. This role combines precise audio restoration with critical French-language listening, ensuring recordings are clear, natural, consistent, and ready for machine learning training pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit and process French voice recordings for speech and TTS applications.
• Clean audio by trimming silence, reducing or removing breaths, de-clicking, de-essing, and reducing noise.
• Perform detailed quality checks for clipping, distortion, background noise, artifacts, loudness consistency, and level balance.
• Verify that files meet strict technical specifications for ML training workflows.
• Assess French pronunciation, fluency, and naturalness.
• Maintain quality and throughput while handling large recording batches.
• Collaborate on French speech datasets, voice-talent recordings, and model-training workflows.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native French fluency, with strong intuition for French speech nuances and the ability to evaluate pronunciation, speech quality, and naturalness.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings, beyond music-production work alone.
• Strong knowledge of speech-audio quality standards and common recorded-dialogue issues.
• Hands-on experience with iZotope RX, Pro Tools, or comparable audio-restoration software.
• Ability to identify and correct audio artifacts, inconsistencies, and technical defects.
• Experience working with high-volume audio datasets or structured production workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TTS vendors or platforms.
• Background in speech machine learning, voice AI, or dataset creation or annotation workflows.
• Familiarity with audio QA, labeling, or evaluation processes.
• Experience directing or editing recordings with French voice talent.

Work Style

• Strong attention to detail and critical listening skills in French.
• Comfort with repetitive, high-precision work at scale.
• Ability to balance speed with quality in a production environment.
• Understanding of the differences between human French speech and synthetic-voice requirements.

Work Terms

Remote, hourly engagement.

Compensation

50 per hour.