Remote AI Speech & Audio Specialist — TTS/ASR Quality

Telus Digital AI Solution; United States; Remote; USD 8,300 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Global collaboration

Flexible engagement

Job summary

TELUS Digital is seeking a skilled Audio & Speech Specialist to evaluate AI-generated speech, improve ASR transcription outputs, and perform professional audio editing tasks. You will analyze recordings with waveform tools, contribute to high-quality speech datasets, and ensure clarity and consistency across voice applications in a remote, globally distributed team.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in audio engineering, linguistics, and AI-driven speech projects, with proficiency in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics/CS (Speech/AI focus).
• Experience in Audio production, Sound design, Dialogue editing, Voice recording, Podcast/audio post-production, Speech data creation, AI speech projects.
• Proficiency with professional audio tools (DAWs) such as Adobe Audition, iZotope RX, Pro Tools, Reaper, Audacity, Logic Pro, Cubase or similar.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation, rhythm, tone, emotion, and voice quality.
• Review and improve ASR outputs by identifying transcription errors, accents, and linguistic nuances.
• Perform professional audio editing: segmentation, trimming, noise reduction, silence adjustment, quality enhancement.
• Analyze recordings using waveform/spectrogram tools to spot quality issues.
• Support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets for AI model training.

Skills

Audio editing

Speech evaluation

ASR/TTS knowledge

Linguistics

Audio QA

Education

Audio Engineering / Linguistics related degree

Computational Linguistics / CS (Speech/AI focus)

Tools

Adobe Audition

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Reaper

Audacity

Logic Pro

Job description

TELUS Digital is seeking a skilled Audio & Speech Specialist to evaluate AI-generated speech, improve ASR transcription outputs, and perform professional audio editing tasks. You will analyze recordings with waveform tools, contribute to high-quality speech datasets, and ensure clarity and consistency across voice applications in a remote, globally distributed team.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in audio engineering, linguistics, and AI-driven speech projects, with proficiency in