AI Tutor - Lithuanian

Details

As an AI Tutor specialized in multilingual audio capabilities, you will contribute to training and refining Grok for voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences across diverse languages, accents, and cultural contexts. You will curate and annotate high-quality audio data to improve global accessibility, natural spoken interactions, speech processing, and the handling of multilingual audio nuances.

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 text strings, including UI copy, prompts, responses, and other written content, from English into Lithuanian.
• Support the delivery of curated audio data representing clear, natural spoken output, linguistic and prosodic details such as intonation, rhythm, and accent, and professional audio standards.
• Collaborate with technical staff to improve AI handling of speech modulation, accent variation, noise in real-world recordings, and multilingual audio processing.
• Work with technical staff to improve annotation tools and audio workflows.

Requirements

• Native proficiency in Lithuanian, with 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 for identifying speech, accent, pronunciation, intonation, and audio-quality nuances.
• Experience handling multilingual audio content, evaluating speech accuracy, interpreting cultural vocal expressions, and understanding spoken context.
• Ability to transcribe audio accurately across accents and varying audio quality.
• Ability to translate and localize text between English and Lithuanian while preserving meaning, tone, and cultural nuance.
• Comfort providing voice recordings and feedback on audio samples in multiple languages.
• Strong comprehension, communication, interpersonal, analytical, organizational, and detail-oriented skills.
• Ability to make independent judgments on ambiguous or varied audio material, including noisy or accented speech.
• Commitment to developing sophisticated multilingual audio capabilities.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Exceptional attention to linguistic nuance, auditory detail, and data quality.
• Strong understanding of useful, high-quality audio data.
• Advanced transcription and annotation experience, 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, voice models, or understanding how data quality affects model performance.
• Translation or localization experience involving software UI, product copy, or conversational AI text.
• Professional voice experience, such as voice acting, voice recording, podcasting with a measurable audience, or similar audio production.
• Portfolio of voice samples, annotated transcripts, or audio-related work is strongly preferred for advanced candidates.

Work Arrangement and Other Expectations

• Tutor roles may be full-time, part-time, or contractor positions.
• Contractor hours vary by project scope and availability. Most projects may require at least 10 hours per week, although there are no fixed commitments; 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.
• Visa sponsorship is not provided.
• Personal devices must be a Chromebook, a Mac running macOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later.

Compensation and Benefits

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