AI Speech & Audio Specialist

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.




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.