What the work involves

You work across two audit collections. In Multilingual Transcription Audit, you listen to a recording of Italian speech — human or agent — read the transcription an annotator submitted, and decide whether it faithfully captures what was said. You tag every applicable error code, not just the first one you notice, assign pass or fail, and write a short rationale in English that makes the reason for the verdict obvious to a reader who has not heard the clip. Critical errors are stated first.

In Forced Alignment Audit, you review audio that an automated system has already segmented at the word level. For each segment you check that the start and end timestamps land where the word actually begins and ends in continuous speech, and that the reference transcription matches the spoken form rather than the written one. Where the aligner is wrong you adjust the boundary, split a segment, merge two, insert a missing one, or delete a segment that contains no word at all.

What the platform screens for

  • Native or near-native Italian as spoken in Italy — born and raised in a region where the variety is dominant, or fully fluent with five or more years of residence there. This is a stated hard requirement.
  • English strong enough to read a detailed rulebook and write audit rationale in it. All conventions, error codes, and feedback are in English.
  • Consistency over instinct. Screeners probe whether you can apply a written standard the same way on judgment two hundred as on judgment two — and whether you can separate genuine acoustic ambiguity from a clear annotator mistake.
  • Prior transcription, subtitling, localization, linguistic annotation or QA work is a strong signal. Phonetics background and waveform-tool experience help but are not required.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous. Tasks run at 5.00 audit hours each, so this is paced, careful listening rather than piecework volume; plan for sessions long enough to stay inside one task's context rather than fragmenting it. You complete a short calibration phase before production work opens, and continued work generally depends on staying aligned with the rubric during it. Quiet environment and decent headphones are practical necessities. Pay is observed at $40/hr, not guaranteed, and volume depends on collection availability.