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.
AI Speech & Audio Specialist – ASR | TTS | Voice AI | Audio Data - English speakers
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:
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.
TELUS Digital AI Community
Our global AI Community is a vibrant network of more than one million contributors from diverse backgrounds who help customers collect, enhance, train, translate, and localize content to build better AI models. Become part of our growing community and contribute to the development of innovative AI technologies used by some of the world's largest brands.
Independent Contractor Relationship:
This opportunity is offered on an independent contractor basis. Contributors have the flexibility to choose when and how much they work, subject to project availability and quality requirements. This opportunity is not and should not be construed as creating an employment relationship with TELUS Digital.
TELUS Digital is at the forefront of creating and enhancing the world's data to enable better AI via human intelligence. By providing enriched data through a skilled team of AI specialists and a managed AI Community of over one million crowd contributors, we empower generative AI (GenAI), computer vision, and natural language processing models. Utilizing proprietary AI-assisted, quality-optimized technology, we ensure efficient data collection, accurate labeling, and precise fine-tuning. Our solutions improve AI systems in multiple applications, such as advanced smart products, improved search results, expanded speech recognition, more human-like bot interactions, and more.
