Speech Audio Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $50/hr

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 59,000 - 79,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a French-speaking Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) to edit and process French voice recordings for ML pipelines. This remote contract role collaborates with French datasets and model training teams.

You will clean audio, perform QA for distortions and background noise, and ensure pronunciations are natural and fluent to meet strict specs. Prior experience with iZotope RX or Pro Tools is preferred.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings.
• Hands-on experience with iZotope RX and Pro Tools.

Responsibilities

• Edit and process French voice recordings for use in TTS and speech AI systems.
• Perform audio cleanup including silence trimming, breath reduction, de-clicking, de-essing, and noise reduction.
• Conduct detailed quality assurance checks for clipping, distortion, background noise, and loudness consistency.
• Ensure audio meets strict technical specifications for ML training pipelines.
• Evaluate recordings for French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, and fluency.
• Collaborate with teams working on French speech datasets and model training workflows.

Skills

French language listening

Speech editing

Audio QA

Artifacts correction

High-volume datasets

Tools

iZotope RX

Pro Tools

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position

Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) – French

Type

Contract

Compensation

$50/hour

Location

Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Edit and process French voice recordings for use in TTS and speech AI systems.
• Perform audio cleanup including silence trimming, breath reduction, de-clicking, de-essing, and noise reduction.
• Conduct detailed quality assurance checks for clipping, distortion, background noise, and loudness consistency.
• Ensure audio meets strict technical specifications for ML training pipelines.
• Evaluate recordings for French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, and fluency .
• Collaborate with teams working on French speech datasets and model training workflows.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition for French speech nuances.
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings .
• Strong understanding of speech audio quality standards .
• Hands-on experience with tools like iZotope RX, Pro Tools .
• Ability to identify and fix artifacts, inconsistencies, and technical defects in audio.
• Experience working with high-volume audio datasets .

Preferred

• Experience working with TTS vendors or platforms .
• Prior involvement in speech ML, voice AI, or dataset creation/annotation workflows .
• Familiarity with audio QA pipelines .
• Experience directing or editing French voice talent recordings .