Senior Icelandic Audio Transcriber — Flexible Projects

Perle; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Perle is hiring expert Icelandic transcribers to convert audio recordings of native speakers into precise, conventionally formatted transcripts. This is not data entry; you will apply orthography, speaker attribution, and diacritics to produce model-ready outputs.

You'll work remotely, with paid pilot tasks, per-task compensation, and collaboration with Perle’s linguistic leads and QA team to ensure accuracy and consistency across projects.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in Icelandic with immersion in Iceland.
• Mastery of Icelandic orthography including diacritics.
• Strong Icelandic inflectional morphology handling.
• Experience in transcription, captioning, or linguistic annotation.
• Ability to meet weekly volume targets.

Responsibilities

• Transcribe audio recordings into accurate, time-aligned written text following Perle’s project-specific style guide
• Apply correct conventions for speaker identification, overlapping speech, disfluencies, fillers, false starts, and non-speech events
• Make principled orthographic decisions for dialectal, colloquial, and code-switched speech
• Flag ambiguous segments, uncertain speakers, and audio quality issues using project conventions
• Self-review every submission against Perle’s quality bar before delivery
• Engage with QA reviewers on edge cases, calibration sessions, and style guide updates

Skills

Icelandic fluency

Linguistic judgment

Attention to detail

Tools

Web-based annotation platforms

Job description

Perle is hiring expert Icelandic transcribers to convert audio recordings of native speakers into precise, conventionally formatted transcripts. This is not data entry; you will apply orthography, speaker attribution, and diacritics to produce model-ready outputs.

You'll work remotely, with paid pilot tasks, per-task compensation, and collaboration with Perle’s linguistic leads and QA team to ensure accuracy and consistency across projects.