Music Audio Expert - Hindi

$14–42/hr

rate as listed

Workload: 10+ hrs/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Creative

Evaluate AI-generated Hindi-language music — lyrics, vocals, arrangement, and mix — through head-to-head comparisons and structured annotation. Requires professional music production or audio engineering experience plus native-level Hindi and working English.

What the work involves

You'll listen to pairs and batches of AI-generated Hindi songs and decide which output is better, then explain why in terms an engineer would recognize. Sessions typically cover musicality and arrangement, prompt adherence, vocal quality and pronunciation, lyrical coherence in Hindi, and production/mix quality — clipping, muddy low-mids, unnatural sibilance, phase issues, dynamics. The second half of the work is annotation: tagging genre and sub-genre (filmi, ghazal, bhangra, indie Hindi, devotional, and beyond), marking song structure, and describing vocal and instrumental characteristics against a fixed taxonomy the lab supplies.

Good work here is specific. "Sample B is better" is worth little; "Sample B holds the tanpura drone in tune through the antara, while A drifts about 20 cents flat and the vocal doubling smears the consonants" is what the lab is training against. Expect rubric updates mid-project and occasional calibration rounds where your scores are compared against other raters.

What the platform screens for

Mercor runs a roughly 25-minute AI-led conversational interview after your resume and application form. It probes verifiable production credits, how long you've worked in Hindi-language music specifically, and whether you can hold up under follow-up questions about mixing decisions, theory, and lyric writing. Vague claims tend to collapse quickly — have specific projects, roles, and technical choices ready to describe. Bilingual fluency matters in both directions: you'll read English instructions and rubrics while judging Hindi lyrics and diction.

Logistics

Fully remote and largely asynchronous; you claim tasks from a queue
Part-time, 10+ hours per week, up to a 6-month engagement
Immediate start; onboarding details typically follow within a few days of the interview
Observed pay band is $9.63–17.33/hr, varying with assessed depth and task type — not guaranteed
Good headphones or monitors and a quiet listening environment are effectively required

What they look for

3+ years as a music producer, audio engineer, or mixing engineer
Native or near-native Hindi plus working English proficiency
Experience writing or producing lyrical music in Hindi
Fluency in audio-engineering vocabulary (mix, dynamics, timbre, intonation)
Music theory and song-structure literacy; degree in music preferred
Consistent, rubric-disciplined listening and written justification

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you have native or near-native proficiency in both Hindi and English?
Hindi language proficiency · required
Do you have a college degree in music that included training in performance, theory, and lyrics?
Music education · preferred
Have you worked as a music producer, audio engineer, sound mixer, or in a related hands-on music production role for at least 3 years?
Production or engineering experience · preferred
Do you have past experience writing and composing lyrical music in Hindi?
Hindi music composition · required
Are you available to work part-time at 10+ hours per week for up to 6 months starting immediately?
Availability · required

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Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether the candidate can articulate audio-engineering and musicological judgment beyond subjective taste; whether they have real experience giving constructive feedback on production, arrangement, or performance.
A strong answer: The answer should name concrete criteria (vocal tuning, mix balance, compression choices, melodic phrasing, harmonic movement, or production artifacts) and show how those shaped the critique. It should reveal familiarity with both the technical and artistic sides of music evaluation.
Where people lose it: Saying 'I just listen and know if it's good' or focusing only on whether they personally liked it, rather than demonstrating structured analytical tools.

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