What the work actually involves

Contributors record unscripted group conversations; an ASR and diarization pass runs over them; other contributors correct that pass by hand. You are the last person to look at it. Day to day that means listening to multi-channel recordings for channel bleed, clipping, low gain, and room noise, then opening the corresponding JSON and checking that turn-level and word-level timestamps line up with what you heard, that speaker labels survive overlapping speech, and that the transcript is genuinely unnormalized — stutters, false starts, backchannels and fillers preserved rather than tidied into grammatical prose.

The review is verdict-based: you assign pass/fail or agree/disagree on each task and write a comment whenever you disagree with the annotator. Vague rejections are worse than useless here, because your comment is what the annotator learns from. You also audit for PII, toxic, or sensitive content and verify metadata — demographic markers, contextual domain, conversational tags — against the recording itself rather than trusting what was entered.

What the platform screens for

  • Language certainty. Native-level command of the target variety. The listing's title and requirements disagree (Portuguese vs. LATAM Spanish); ask directly, and if you are native in both, say so.
  • Verbatim discipline. Whether you can resist correcting speech. Teachers and editors often fail this instinct test.
  • Audio ear. Whether you can name what you are hearing — bleed vs. crosstalk, clipping vs. distortion, gain vs. distance from mic.
  • JSON comfort. You are not writing code, but you must read a diarization payload and spot an ordering or overlap error without a GUI holding your hand.
  • Calibration. Consistent thresholds across a long queue, and a habit of escalating ambiguity rather than inventing a private rule.

Logistics

Fully remote, contractor engagement with no paid or medical leave, stated at 15 weeks with possible extension on performance and project need. The commitment is substantial for freelance work: at least four hours a day, a minimum of 40 hours per week, and four hours of daily overlap with PST — which is a real constraint if you are in Europe, Africa, or most of Asia. Pay is undisclosed on this listing; ask for the rate and the unit (hourly vs. per task) during the screen rather than after onboarding. Shortlisted candidates are reviewed internally before an onboarding conversation.