Audio Quality Analyst (Remote Annotator)

About the role

Annotator General is hiring a part-time remote audio annotator to work on audio clips for 6 weeks, 20 to 40 hours per week, at $8 per hour. You will listen carefully to audio and write precise English descriptions of voices, sounds and scene changes.

Key responsibilities

• Transcribe English speech accurately, including repetitions, fillers and names, and flag speech in other languages.
• Identify speakers and track conversations, including overlaps, interruptions and group speech.
• Describe voice characteristics such as pitch, quality, loudness, pace, emotion and intonation.
• Identify, count and time non-speech sounds such as laughter, coughs, sneezes, gasps and breathing.
• Identify and describe background sounds, music, ambience and other audio events.
• Mark sound beginnings, endings, speaker changes, overlaps and transitions.
• Review machine-generated drafts and spot invented, missing, mistimed or wrongly attributed content.
• Maintain consistent quality across clips and batches.

Required profile

• 3+ years of direct professional experience in audio captioning, transcription or audio annotation.
• Background in linguistics, voice analysis/coaching or audio production preferred.
• Native-level written English and the ability to describe voices and sounds precisely.
• Able to distinguish English accents and recognise other languages.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to stay focused on long batches.