The work

You listen to text-to-speech audiobooks in European Portuguese the way a committed audiobook listener would — for pleasure, for flow, for whether the narrator earns your attention — but with a reviewer's discipline. When the narration slips, you stop, mark the exact span, choose the right error category, and move on. Typical findings: a word skipped or hallucinated, 1987 read as digits instead of mil novecentos e oitenta e sete, Dr.ª expanded wrongly, an open vowel where European Portuguese wants a reduced one, a question contour applied to a declarative, a clipped breath or a burst of digital artifact at a sentence boundary.

Alongside per-error logging, you give a holistic read: would a paying listener finish this chapter? Where does the voice sound genuinely human, and where does the illusion break? That satisfaction judgment matters as much as the error list, because a technically clean read can still be unlistenable.

What the screen looks for

  • Real European Portuguese instincts. Expect probes on pt-PT versus pt-BR distinctions — vowel reduction, tu versus você, gerund versus a + infinitive, and pronunciation of loanwords and place names. Brazilian-Portuguese-dominant listeners are screened out here, not later.
  • That you actually listen to audiobooks. You'll be asked what you're listening to now and why a narrator works or doesn't. Vague answers read as fabricated interest.
  • Annotation discipline. Consistent category choices, precise span boundaries, and a reasoned approach to borderline cases — the ones where narration is odd but not wrong.
  • Endurance and honesty about it. Four hours of concentrated listening a day is fatiguing, and the platform would rather hear how you manage attention than hear that you never lose it.

Logistics

Remote and location-flexible, though a region where European Portuguese is natively spoken is preferred. Roughly 20 hours per week, about four hours a day, largely async against a task queue — you need a quiet environment and decent headphones, not a fixed schedule. Working English is required for reports and team communication; you do not need to be bilingual. Observed pay for this band is $15–20/hr, set by the platform and not guaranteed for any individual engagement.