42dot
Speech Data Transcriber (Part-Time)
Sunnyvale, United States. Posted 2 months ago
The role
Transcribers will support speech data and ASR systems. They will generate and review transcriptions, classify utterances, and identify wake words and phrase boundaries within audio files.
What you will do
- Generate and review transcriptions using internal ASR and transcription systems.
- Ensure transcription accuracy against acoustic speech recordings.
- Classify utterances, speaker turns, and dialogue contexts.
- Maintain consistency and reliability in labeling across large datasets.
- Identify and annotate target wake word(s) within audio files.
- Mark precise onset and offset times of target wake words.
- Identify and annotate precise word and phrase boundaries.
- Follow detailed annotation guides and project-specific instructions.
- Flag guideline ambiguities and suggest improvements.
- Work closely with speech data scientists, linguists, and engineers.
Required qualifications
- Native, bilingual, or multilingual proficiency in one or more of: North American English, Latin American Spanish, Canadian French.
- Comfort transcribing a range of accents including both native and foreign/non-native accents.
- Comfortable transcribing points of interest, geographic references, and navigation/wayfinding terminology.
- Comfortable working with computers and transcription software/tools.
- Bachelor's degree, or currently pursuing an undergraduate degree, in Linguistics; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Communication Sciences; Language Studies; or a related field or equivalent han
Nice to have
- Bilingual or trilingual candidates strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with personal names across a wide range of languages and cultures, particularly those common among immigrant communities in North America.
- Experience transcribing real-world / naturalistic speech data.
- Prior experience with speech data annotation, labeling, or transcription for ASR or similar systems.
Before you apply
- Application Review - Test - 1st interview - 2nd interview - Offer Negotiation - Hiring
- All documents must be submitted in PDF format and under 30MB in size.
About the company
42dot is a mobility AI company and the Global Software Center of Hyundai Motor Group. They develop software-defined vehicle technologies.