QA Specialist – Audio Annotation & Diarization (Italian) | Contractor | Fully Remote | 15-Week Engagement
Turing is seeking a detail-oriented QA Specialist with native Italian proficiency to serve as the final quality checkpoint on an evaluation-grade, multilingual audio annotation dataset. You'll review multi-channel recordings, human-validated transcriptions, and metadata to ensure the highest standards of accuracy for frontier AI research.
About Turing
Based in San Francisco, Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. Turing delivers high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, and top AI researchers specializing in coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents.
Role Overview
This project involves building a highly accurate dataset of transcribed, multi-channel audio recordings used to evaluate multilingual, multi-speaker AI systems. Contributors record unscripted group conversations, which are then transcribed and diarized. As QA Specialist, you review the full end-to-end quality of both the audio and the human-verified annotations.
Key Responsibilities
Audio Quality Assurance
- Evaluate multi-channel recordings against strict technical and fidelity standards.
- Verify channel isolation, confirm quiet recording environments, and flag issues such as audio bleed, clipping, or low gain.
Transcription & Diarization Verification
- Review human-validated transcriptions to ensure exceptionally low word error rates (WER).
- Confirm transcripts accurately capture spontaneous, unnormalized speech including overlaps, interruptions, and false starts.
- Validate turn-level and word-level timestamps and speaker identification in complex, overlapping dialogue.
- Read and validate underlying JSON-formatted data for accurate metadata tagging and timestamp logic.
Metadata & Content Review
- Verify accuracy of all metadata including demographic markers, contextual domains, and conversational tags.
- Audit sessions to ensure no Personally Identifying Information (PII), toxic, or sensitive content is present.
- Assign clear pass/fail or agree/disagree statuses and provide detailed, actionable feedback when disagreeing with annotator work.
Requirements
- Native proficiency in Italian
- Exceptional ear for audio fidelity; ability to detect subtle background noise, channel bleed, or clipping.
- Meticulous attention to detail for word-level timestamps and strict verbatim transcription.
- Ability to accurately assess complex multi-speaker conversational dynamics.
Ideal Backgrounds
- Linguists / Phonetics Experts: Deep understanding of natural speech patterns, overlaps, false starts, and backchannels.
- Language Teachers: Native-level mastery with strict adherence to verbatim transcription guidelines.
- Professional Transcriptionists: Rigorous timestamping skills and experience meeting strict accuracy targets.
Engagement Details
- Commitment: Minimum 4 hours/day, 40 hours/week, with 4 hours of overlap with PST
- Type: Contractor / Freelancer (no medical or paid leave benefits)
- Duration: 15 weeks
Perks
- Fully remote work environment
- Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI research with leading LLM companies
- Potential for contract extension based on performance and project needs
