About this role
Role Overview
Help improve AI-narrated German audiobooks by assessing whether the listening experience sounds natural, accurate, and engaging. You will review German text-to-speech narration with both the perspective of an audiobook listener and a careful quality reviewer.
Key Responsibilities
- Listen to AI-narrated audiobooks in German and evaluate narration quality, naturalness, accuracy, and enjoyment.
- Identify and document skipped, added, or mispronounced words; incorrectly read numbers; wrongly expanded abbreviations; unnatural phrasing or intonation; and audio glitches or artifacts.
- Classify issues and mark their exact location using review tools.
- Report overall listener satisfaction, including where narration feels convincing and where it disrupts the experience.
- Maintain close attention to detail while reviewing extended amounts of audio.
Qualifications
- Native or near-native German fluency for Germany.
- Regular audiobook listening experience and a clear understanding of what makes narration effective.
- Working English sufficient to communicate clearly and submit reports.
- Experience with annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, linguistics, or similarly detail-oriented review work.
- A patient, discerning ear and the ability to remain accurate during long listening sessions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous work on AI training data, model evaluation, or audio quality assurance annotation projects.
- Experience in language, editing, voice, or audio production.
Work Terms
- Remote, hourly, part-time engagement.
- Approximately 20 hours per week, or about 4 hours per day.
- Applicants may be located anywhere, with preference for people living in a region where German is natively spoken.
Compensation
15 to 20 per hour.