Linguistics Experts in the US — Contribute to AI Speech Annotation!

5 days, 20 hours ago
Contract
Junior
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
CrowdGen by Appen

CrowdGen by Appen

CrowdGen by Appen offers individuals the opportunity to earn money by participating in the training of artificial intelligence systems, allowing them to work remotely and at their own convenience without requiring prior experience.

Internet Software & Services

Description

  • Work with recordings of natural, unscripted conversational English data.
  • 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 disfluencies, false starts, overlaps, filled pauses, and non-linguistic sounds in transcription.
  • Refine speech boundaries so each interval reflects a coherent intonational phrase.
  • Create accurate orthographic transcriptions that capture spontaneous speech production, including morphosyntactic variants, overlaps, mimicry, and reduced forms.

Requirements

  • Native or near-native proficiency in US English.
  • Prior experience with transcription.
  • 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 a related field is strongly preferred.
  • Must be residing in the United States.
  • Project-based availability as an independent contractor.

Benefits

  • $25 per hour.
  • Remote work from home.
  • Flexible hours.
  • Project-based independent contractor arrangement.
  • Opportunity to contribute to speech and language AI development.
  • Rolling onboarding process with early applications encouraged.

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