The work

You put on headphones and listen to long stretches of AI-narrated Italian audiobooks the way a committed audiobook listener would — then stop and document the moments where the illusion breaks. That means catching a pèsca read as pésca, an àncora stressed as ancóra, Dott. expanded into something that isn't dottore, a date read as a cardinal instead of an ordinal, a Roman numeral flattened into letters, a question that ends on a falling contour, a clause boundary the model ran straight through, or a half-second of digital burr between sentences. Each issue gets a category and a precise start and end span in the tooling, plus a global judgement on whether the chapter was actually pleasant to listen to.

The volume is real: several hours of audio per day, and the errors that matter most are often the quiet ones — a subtly wrong vowel aperture, an intonation contour that is technically intelligible but sounds like a robot reading a shopping list. Consistency across a long shift is the part of the job people underestimate.

What the screen looks for

  • Native-level Italian (Italy) with articulable phonetic instinct. You do not need IPA, but you should be able to say why something sounded wrong — stress placement, open vs. closed vowel, elision, sentence-final contour — rather than only that it did.
  • Genuine audiobook listening habit. Expect to be asked what you last listened to, which narrators you like, and what specifically makes a narration good or unbearable. Vague answers read as fabricated.
  • Prior detail work. Annotation, transcription, proofreading, subtitling, linguistics, editing, or voice/audio production all count.
  • Calibration judgement. Screeners probe whether you can separate a hard error (wrong word, skipped line) from a stylistic preference you happen to dislike, and whether you apply the same threshold at hour four as at hour one.
  • Working English. Enough to write clear issue notes and talk to the team. Fluency is not required.

Logistics

Remote and asynchronous, roughly 20 hours per week structured as about four hours a day. Location is open, though candidates living where Italian is natively spoken are preferred. Work is queue-based rather than meeting-heavy; the main scheduling constraint is that you can commit the hours reliably week to week and sustain accuracy across them. Pay is observed at $15–20/hr on this platform and is not guaranteed for any individual assignment.