AI Tutor - Kannada

Details

As an AI Tutor specialized in multilingual audio capabilities, you will help train and refine Grok for voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences across languages, accents, and cultural contexts. The role focuses on curating and annotating high-quality audio data to improve global accessibility, natural spoken interactions, multilingual speech processing, and the handling of audio nuances.

Responsibilities

• Use proprietary software to provide labels, annotations, recordings, and other inputs for projects involving multilingual audio clips, voice recordings, speech samples, and auditory elements.
• Translate and localize UI copy, prompts, responses, and other written content from English into Kannada while preserving linguistic accuracy, natural phrasing, and cultural appropriateness.
• Deliver high-quality curated audio data representing clear and natural speech, linguistic and prosodic details such as intonation, rhythm, and accent, and professional audio standards.
• Collaborate with technical staff on tasks that improve AI handling of speech modulation, accent variation, real-world recording noise, and multilingual audio processing.
• Work with technical staff to improve annotation tools and audio workflows.

Requirements

• Native proficiency in Kannada, including exposure to diverse accents, dialects, or regional variations.
• English proficiency at a minimum B2 level, with clear and natural vocal delivery suitable for audio recording.
• Strong auditory perception, including the ability to identify nuances in speech, accents, pronunciation, intonation, and audio quality.
• Experience handling multilingual audio content, evaluating speech accuracy and cultural vocal expressions, and interpreting spoken content in context.
• Ability to transcribe audio accurately across accents and varying audio quality.
• Ability to translate and localize content between English and Kannada while preserving meaning, tone, and cultural nuance.
• Comfort providing high-quality voice recordings and feedback on audio samples in multiple languages.
• Strong comprehension, communication, interpersonal, analytical, organizational, and detail-oriented skills.
• Ability to make independent, consistent judgments on ambiguous, noisy, or accented audio material and articulate audio-related feedback.
• Preferred background in linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, speech sciences, cognitive science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred experience with speech or audio datasets, annotation workflows, AI training data, voice-model training, translation or localization workflows, software UI or conversational AI text, voice acting, voice recording, podcasting, or similar audio production.
• A portfolio of voice samples, annotated transcripts, or audio-related work is strongly preferred for advanced candidates.

Location And Work Expectations

• Roles may be full-time, part-time, or contractor positions, depending on role needs and candidate fit.
• Contractor hours vary based on project scope and availability. Most projects may require at least 10 hours per week on average, but there are no fixed commitments; contractors can set their own hours.
• Work may be performed remotely from anywhere worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role-specific needs.
• US-based candidates cannot be hired in Wyoming or Illinois.
• Personal devices must be a Chromebook, a Mac running macOS 11.0 or later, or a computer running Windows 10 or later.

Compensation And Benefits

• US-based candidates: $35-$45 per hour, depending on relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications.
• Compensation information for international candidates will be provided during recruitment.
• Benefits vary by employment type, location, and jurisdiction. Eligible US-based positions may include health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave.