The work day to day

You move between two audit collections. In Multilingual Transcription Audit, you play a recording of French speech, read the transcription an annotator submitted, and decide whether it faithfully captures what was said — applying a fixed error-code taxonomy, issuing a pass or fail verdict, and writing a short rationale in English. In Forced Alignment Audit, you inspect audio that an automated system has already cut into word-level segments and check each start and end timestamp against where the word actually begins and ends, along with whether the reference transcription matches the spoken form. When the aligner is wrong you nudge the boundary, split a segment, merge two, insert a missing one, or delete a segment that contains no speech.

Tasks are budgeted at 5.00 audit hours each, which tells you what kind of work this is: careful, evidence-backed listening rather than throughput. You are expected to tag every applicable error code rather than the first one you notice, and to lead the rationale with the critical error so a reader understands immediately why something failed.

What the platform screens for

  • Variety-specific fluency. Native or near-native French as spoken in France — either raised in a dominant-language region or fully fluent with five or more years' residence there. This is a hard gate.
  • English reading and writing under load. The rulebook, the error codes, and your rationales are all in English. Expect to be judged on whether your written reason is specific and legible, not just correct.
  • Rubric discipline. Screeners probe whether you can hold a written standard steady across hundreds of judgments, and whether you can separate genuine acoustic ambiguity from a clear annotator mistake.
  • Relevant background signals. Transcription, subtitling, localization, linguistic annotation, or QA experience counts. Phonetics or linguistics training and comfort with waveform tools help but are not required.

Logistics

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; you pick up tasks from a queue rather than working fixed shifts.
  • A short calibration phase precedes production work — treat it as the real assessment of whether your interpretation of the rulebook matches the project's.
  • Rate observed at $42/hr for this listing, tracked against audit hours; not a guaranteed or ongoing rate.
  • Practical needs: quiet listening environment, decent closed-back headphones, and a stable connection for streaming audio and scrubbing waveforms.