Japanese Transcription, Pitch Annotation Specialist

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🌐 Japan, Philippines, +4 more countries – Remote

🇯🇵 Japan – Remote 🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote 🇮🇩 Indonesia – Remote 🇻🇳 Vietnam – Remote 🇹🇭 Thailand – Remote 🇰🇷 South Korea – Remote

💵 $18 - $20 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✨ Japanese

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Volga Partners

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2020

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Enterprise

Volga Partners is a technology services firm that specializes in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions, data annotation and labeling, and development of customer service platforms powered by generative AI. The company also provides IT and software development services across web, app, full-stack, cybersecurity advisory, and e-commerce support, supported by a large multilingual crowd workforce and remote on-demand resources. Volga Partners focuses on partnering with enterprise clients to deliver scalable, cost-effective AI tooling, content moderation, linguistic services, and managed software projects.

📋 Description

• Review Japanese audio and verify transcript accuracy • Correct omissions, additions, repetitions, and pronunciation differences in transcriptions • Review mixed Kanji/Kana transcription for accuracy, punctuation, pauses, and bunsetsu boundaries • Validate Katakana pronunciation lines against spoken audio • Apply project-specific pronunciation rules for particles, long vowels, double consonants, syllabic nasals, and contracted sounds • Assign H/L pitch values to each mora aligned with the pronunciation line • Represent audible vowel lengthening with additional mora and pitch values • Flag unclear audio for review instead of making unsupported assumptions • Maintain consistent annotation quality and follow calibration feedback • Evaluate existing audio recordings rather than participate in one-time recording

🎯 Requirements

• Fluent or highly proficient Japanese ability • Strong transcription knowledge and accuracy • Ability to transcribe spoken Japanese using Kanji/Kana • Ability to prepare or validate Katakana phonetic transcription • Strong understanding of mora structure and pitch perception • Ability to identify pauses, sentence endings, emotional speech, vowel lengthening, and pronunciation differences • Attention to detail and consistent annotation judgment • Experience in Japanese speech transcription or QA, audio or linguistic annotation projects, ASR transcription or speech data QA, Japanese linguistics/phonetics/phonology/prosody, speech technology or voice data projects, Japanese language teaching, or voice acting/narration with strong pitch perception • Successful completion of a qualification assessment covering Japanese transcription, Katakana pronunciation validation, mora identification and pronunciation rules, H/L pitch perception, and mora-to-pitch alignment • Strong performance on the practical audio assessment before production work • All project hours and assignments must be approved in advance

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • Freelance / project-based engagement • Approximately one-month project • Approximately 15 hours per week • Payment processed through Deel