Audio Engineer – Speech, TTS Specialist, French
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Audio Engineer editing and quality-checking French speech recordings for Mercor’s AI model training projects. Preparing technically compliant datasets for TTS and speech systems.
Responsibilities:
- Edit and process French voice recordings for TTS and speech AI systems
- Perform audio cleanup, including silence trimming, breath reduction/removal, de-clicking, de-essing, and noise reduction
- Conduct quality assurance checks for clipping, distortion, background noise, artifacts, loudness consistency, and level balancing
- Ensure audio meets technical specifications for machine-learning training pipelines
- Evaluate French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, and fluency
- Process large batches of recordings while maintaining consistency and throughput
- Collaborate on French speech datasets, voice talent recordings, and model-training workflows
- Potentially work with TTS vendors or platforms, speech ML, voice AI, and dataset creation or annotation workflows
- Direct or edit French voice talent recordings where applicable
Requirements:
- Native or near-native French fluency
- Experience editing speech or voice recordings, not just music production
- Strong understanding of speech audio quality standards and common recorded-dialogue issues
- Hands-on experience with iZotope RX, Pro Tools, or similar audio restoration software
- Ability to identify and fix audio artifacts, inconsistencies, and technical defects
- Experience working with high-volume audio datasets or structured workflows
- Strong listening intuition for French speech nuances
- Familiarity with audio QA pipelines, labeling, or evaluation processes
- Familiarity with nuances of human French speech versus synthetic voice requirements
- H1-B or STEM OPT candidates are not supported
- Must work as an independent contractor
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Competitive pay
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
- Referral earnings up to $280 per successful referral
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