AI Speech & Audio Specialist – ASR | TTS | Voice AI | Audio Data - (Germany)

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About the Role:

At TELUS Digital, we are advancing the future of Artificial Intelligence by helping AI systems understand, process, and generate human speech with greater accuracy and naturalness.

As an AI Speech & Audio Specialist in our AI Community, you will contribute to the development and improvement of next-generation speech AI technologies, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) , Text-to-Speech (TTS) , Voice AI, and audio machine learning systems.

We rely on our global community of specialists to evaluate, create, refine, and improve high-quality speech and audio datasets. Your expertise in audio production, speech analysis, linguistics, or voice technology will help ensure AI models deliver natural, accurate, culturally relevant, and human-like voice experiences.

At TELUS Digital, you will play a key role in shaping how AI listens, understands, and communicates with people around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation accuracy, rhythm, tone, emotion, and overall voice quality.
• Review and improve speech recognition outputs (ASR) by identifying transcription errors, pronunciation issues, accents, and linguistic nuances.
• Perform professional audio editing tasks including segmentation, trimming, noise reduction, silence adjustment, and quality enhancement.
• Analyze audio recordings using waveform and spectrogram-based tools to identify quality issues.
• Support the creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets used for AI model training and evaluation.
• Review voice recordings for clarity, consistency, articulation, and technical quality.
• Perform audio quality checks including loudness levels, background noise detection, clipping, distortion, and export specifications.
• Support voice AI projects including TTS, ASR, voice generation, voice similarity, voice mimicry, and conversational AI evaluation.
• Apply expertise in phonetics, linguistics, audio engineering, or speech technology to improve AI-generated voice experiences.

Qualification path

Mandatory Qualifications:

Education / Professional Background:

Minimum of one of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in:
• Audio Engineering
• Sound Engineering
• Music Technology
• Linguistics
• Phonetics
• Speech-Language Pathology
• Computational Linguistics
• Computer Science (Speech/AI focus)
• Related audio or speech fields

OR

Professional experience in:

• Audio production
• Sound design
• Dialogue editing
• Voice recording
• Podcast/audio post-production
• Speech data creation
• AI speech projects
• Technical Experience:
• Experience with at least one professional audio tool:
• Adobe Audition
• iZotope RX
• Pro Tools
• Reaper
• Audacity
• Logic Pro
• Cubase
• Other Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)

Knowledge of:

• Audio editing and restoration
• Noise reduction
• Speech segmentation
• Spectrogram analysis
• Audio quality assessment
• Voice/audio processing workflows

Language Requirements:

• Native-level proficiency (C1/C2+) in the required language is preferred for language-specific projects.
• Ability to identify pronunciation, accent, and linguistic nuances.
• English proficiency sufficient to understand technical instructions and project guidelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with:

• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
• Text-to-Speech (TTS)
• Voice AI
• Speech datasets
• Audio annotation
• Voice cloning or voice mimicry projects
• ADR / dubbing
• Localization audio
• Broadcast or media production
• AI model evaluation

Assessment:

• To join the TELUS Digital AI Community, candidates will complete:
• Subject-specific qualification assessment
• Practical audio/speech evaluation (where applicable)
• Identity verification process

The assessment may include:

• Audio quality evaluation
• Speech recognition review
• Audio editing tasks
• Voice quality analysis
• Linguistic accuracy evaluation

Payment:

Currently, pay rates for specialists range from $6 - $40 USD per hour depending on expertise, project complexity, and market requirements. *Location and language is directly dependent.

Payment terms and rates are defined separately for each project engagement.

Why Join the TELUS Digital AI Community:

• Community Connection: Work remotely as part of a 1M+ diverse global AI Community of contributors and experts.
• Impactful Expertise: Use your native language and academic degree to shape real-world AI systems and products used by millions every day.
• Hands-on Innovation: Gain experience in the latest AI research, evaluation, and fine-tuning methodologies.
• Global Collaboration: Collaborate with a network of specialists across 20+ domains and 500+ languages and dialects.
• Flexible Engagement : Manage your own schedule while making a meaningful impact on the future of technology.

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