AI Tutor - Khmer

Details

As an AI Tutor specializing 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 multilingual speech processing and enable natural spoken interactions.

Responsibilities

• Use proprietary software to provide labels, annotations, recordings, and 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 Khmer while ensuring linguistic accuracy, natural phrasing, and cultural appropriateness.
• Support the delivery of curated audio data representing clear, natural speech and accurate linguistic and prosodic details, including intonation, rhythm, and accent.
• Collaborate with technical staff to improve AI capabilities related to 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 Khmer proficiency and 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 and the ability to identify nuances in speech, accents, pronunciation, intonation, and audio quality.
• Experience handling multilingual audio content, evaluating speech accuracy, interpreting cultural vocal expressions, and understanding spoken context.
• Ability to transcribe audio accurately across different accents and varying audio quality.
• Ability to translate and localize text between English and Khmer while preserving meaning, tone, and cultural nuance.
• Comfort providing high-quality voice recordings and feedback on audio samples.
• Ability to make independent judgments on ambiguous or varied audio material, including noisy or accented speech.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, detail-oriented, and organizational skills.
• Exceptional attention to linguistic nuance, auditory detail, and data quality.
• Knowledge of advanced transcription and annotation practices, including disfluencies, accents, intonation, stress, rhythm, and emotion.
• Background in linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, speech sciences, cognitive science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with speech or audio datasets, annotation workflows, AI training data, or training voice models is preferred.
• Experience with translation or localization workflows for software UI, product copy, or conversational AI text is preferred.
• Professional voice experience, such as voice acting, voice recording, podcasting, or similar audio production, is preferred.
• A portfolio of voice samples, annotated transcripts, or audio-related work is strongly preferred for advanced candidates.

Work Arrangement

• Roles may be full-time, part-time, or contractor positions.
• Contractor hours vary by project scope and availability. Projects may require at least 10 hours per week on average, but there are no fixed commitments, and contractors can set their own hours.
• Roles may be performed remotely 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 experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications.
• Compensation information for international candidates is provided during the recruitment process.
• Eligible US-based positions may include health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave.

Visa sponsorship is not available.