Malaysian Malay Voice AI Linguist & Quality Analyst

TELUS International; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Trainer Jobs seeks a Malaysian Malay Linguist Expert to evaluate and validate speech AI systems from a linguistic perspective. You will assess naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, and linguistic accuracy across TTS and ASR outputs, ensuring cultural authenticity.

You'll apply phonetic analysis to identify dialect features, document regional variations, and provide structured feedback to improve models. Collaboration across voice AI projects and dataset annotation will be part of your role.

Qualifications

• Education / Professional Background: One of the following: Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Language Sciences, or related linguistic discipline
• OR 2+ years professional experience in: linguistic analysis, speech science, language documentation, dialect research, computational linguistics, speech dataset creation, or voice AI linguistics projects

Responsibilities

• Linguistic Analysis & Language Quality Assessment: Analyze AI-generated speech for naturalness, pronunciation accuracy, prosodic rhythm, intonation, and emotional register
• Language Variation & Dialectological Analysis: Identify speech variations across Malaysian Malay dialects and accents, analyze prosodic features, document regional variations
• Speech Dataset Validation & Annotation: Review voice recordings for linguistic clarity, aid creation and validation of high-quality datasets with linguistic labeling
• Voice AI Project Support: Provide linguistic QA for TTS/ASR/voice generation projects and contribute to research insights

Skills

Linguistic analysis

Speech quality evaluation

Dialect research

Dataset annotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related discipline

Tools

IPA transcription

SAMPA

Job description

AI Trainer Jobs seeks a Malaysian Malay Linguist Expert to evaluate and validate speech AI systems from a linguistic perspective. You will assess naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, and linguistic accuracy across TTS and ASR outputs, ensuring cultural authenticity.

You'll apply phonetic analysis to identify dialect features, document regional variations, and provide structured feedback to improve models. Collaboration across voice AI projects and dataset annotation will be part of your role.