Linguistics Expert – AI Speech Annotation

🕒 May 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $25 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Appen

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1996

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • Data • Enterprise

Appen is a company that specializes in providing high-quality, scalable datasets for AI models and applications. With over 25 years of experience, Appen supports the complete AI lifecycle by collecting, curating, fine-tuning, and monitoring data. Their platform is known for its flexibility, allowing enterprises to unlock the potential of their enterprise data through human-AI collaboration. Appen's global reach and expertise make them a trusted partner in accelerating the development and implementation of AI technologies across various industries.

📋 Description

• Join Project Iktomi — a speech annotation and transcription project focused on improving cutting-edge speech and language AI systems through natural conversational English data! • Work with recordings of natural, unscripted conversational English. • Validate and adjust automatically generated speech boundaries using Praat. • Produce verbatim, time-aligned orthographic transcriptions. • Identify prosodic cues such as pauses, pitch resets, and final syllable lengthening. • Review waveform and spectrogram views and confirm segmentation by ear. • Preserve natural speech characteristics including disfluencies, false starts, overlaps, filled pauses, and non-linguistic sounds.

🎯 Requirements

• Native or near-native proficiency in US English. • Prior experience with transcription and familiarity with Praat, ADAP, or similar speech annotation tools. • Strong understanding of phonetics, phonology, and prosodic annotation. • Ability to recognize intonational phrases, pitch accents, and prosodic boundaries. • Keen ear for spontaneous conversational speech, including disfluencies and overlaps. • Strong attention to detail and consistency in transcription conventions. • Background in linguistics, phonetics, speech science, or related fields is strongly preferred. • Must be residing in United States