AI Tutor - Yoruba

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 work involves 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 Yoruba, ensuring linguistic accuracy, natural phrasing, and cultural appropriateness.
• Support the delivery of curated audio data with accurate linguistic and prosodic details, including intonation, rhythm, and accent, while meeting professional audio standards.
• Collaborate with technical staff to develop tasks that 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 proficiency in Yoruba, with exposure to diverse accents, dialects, or regional variations.
• English proficiency at a minimum B2 level, with clear, 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 transcribing audio accurately across accents and varying audio quality.
• Ability to translate and localize text between English and Yoruba while preserving meaning, tone, and cultural nuance.
• Comfort providing high-quality voice recordings and feedback on audio samples.
• Strong comprehension, independent judgment, communication, interpersonal, analytical, detail-oriented, and organizational skills.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Exceptional attention to linguistic nuance, auditory detail, and data quality.
• Strong understanding of high-quality and useful audio data.
• 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, voice-model training, or speech-data quality evaluation.
• Experience with translation or localization workflows for 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 Expectations

• 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 this is not a fixed commitment. 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: the company is currently unable to hire in Wyoming and Illinois.
• Visa sponsorship is not provided.
• Workers using a personal device must use a Chromebook, a Mac running macOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later.

Compensation And Benefits

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