Thai AI Speech & Linguistics Specialist

AI Trainer Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Trainer Jobs seeks a linguistics specialist to drive linguistic quality for Thai voice AI projects. You will analyze AI-generated speech for naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, intonation, and emotion, and provide structured feedback to improve models.

You will document dialect variations across Thai accents, evaluate prosodic patterns, and ensure dataset diversity. The role supports ASR and TTS development with linguistic analysis integrated into model evaluation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related field.
• OR 2+ years of hands-on linguistic analysis or voice AI experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AI-generated speech for naturalness, pronunciation, rhythm, intonation, and emotional register from a linguistic perspective.
• Identify transcription errors, phonological and morphological issues, and linguistic nuances in speech recognition (ASR) outputs.
• Conduct linguistic quality evaluation of speech output including assessment of grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse coherence.
• Apply phonetic and phonological analysis to identify pronunciation variations, dialectal features, and language-specific patterns.
• Provide structured linguistic feedback for model improvement.
• Review voice recordings for linguistic clarity, consistency, and technical quality.
• Apply linguistic expertise to support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets with attention to language structure and variation.
• Perform detailed linguistic annotation and labeling for dataset integrity (phonetic transcription, prosodic markup, morphological tagging where applicable).
• Assess dataset diversity and representativeness from a linguistic perspective.
• Identify and document linguistic patterns that improve ASR and TTS model performance.
• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity, voice generation, and conversational AI evaluation projects with linguistic expertise.
• Provide linguistic quality assurance for voice technology projects focused on naturalness and semantic/pragmatic accuracy.
• Document linguistic findings to inform model improvement and contribute to research insights.
• Assess how linguistic features impact user perception and model performance.

Skills

Thai phonetics

Thai phonology

Thai morphology

Thai syntax

Phonetic transcription

Spectrogram analysis

Prosodic analysis

Acoustic phonetics

Language quality assessment

IPA / SAMPA tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Language Sciences, or related linguistic discipline

2+ years professional experience in linguistic analysis, speech science, language documentation, dialect research, computational linguistics, speech dataset creation, or voice AI linguistics projects

Job description

AI Trainer Jobs seeks a linguistics specialist to drive linguistic quality for Thai voice AI projects. You will analyze AI-generated speech for naturalness, pronunciation, prosody, intonation, and emotion, and provide structured feedback to improve models.

You will document dialect variations across Thai accents, evaluate prosodic patterns, and ensure dataset diversity. The role supports ASR and TTS development with linguistic analysis integrated into model evaluation.