We're staffing people with a sharp ear to describe voices, sounds and speech in short audio clips for AI training and evaluation work. It's remote. This takes about a minute.
Audio Captioning Generalist
United States, Canada
$25/hr
November 6, 2026
Job description
About the Role
We're hiring careful listeners to review and annotate audio content. You'll transcribe speech, describe non-speech sounds, track speakers through complex conversations, and audit machine-generated drafts for accuracy. The work rewards patience, precision, and a good ear.
What You'll Do
Listen closely to audio clips and produce clear, faithful descriptions of what you hear — speech, voices, music, and ambient sound. You'll separate foreground from background, catch quiet or overlapping details, and keep your judgment consistent across a clip and across a batch. When reviewing machine drafts, you'll flag anything invented, missed, mistimed, or misattributed based strictly on what's audible.
Requirements
You must be a native English speaker with a strong ear and the vocabulary to describe sound precisely. Specifically, you should be able to:
- Listen critically. Hear quiet, brief, overlapping, and changing details, and separate foreground sounds from background ambience.
- Describe what you hear accurately. Write natural English that captures audible evidence clearly and concisely, without adding assumptions the audio doesn't support.
- Track speakers. Attribute every line to the right speaker through overlaps, interruptions, and group speech, and recognize when a new voice enters.
- Transcribe faithfully. Capture English speech including repetitions, fillers, and names; distinguish English accents; and recognize when a line switches to another language.
- Characterize voices. Describe how each voice sounds and how its delivery changes — pitch, voice quality, loudness, pace, emotion, and intonation — comparing voices to each other and judging delivery from the sound rather than the meaning of the words.
- Handle non-speech vocal sounds. Tell apart, count, and time laughs, coughs, sneezes, sobs, gasps, breaths, and similar.
- Describe non-speech sounds. Identify sounds by texture, attack, distance, and relative level; count repeated events; and distinguish discrete events from continuing ambience.
- Describe music in everyday words. What it sounds like, how loud it is relative to other sounds, and when it starts, stops, or changes. No formal music training required.
- Notice foreground shifts. Hear which sounds stand out or cover others, and catch when that changes — including when music starts, stops, or is replaced.
- Judge what belongs to the scene. Tell whether a voice or sound was in the recorded scene or added over it (narration, playback, music bed).
- Place timings accurately. Mark onsets, offsets, speaker changes, overlaps, and gradual transitions.
- Audit machine drafts. Catch invented, missing, mistimed, or misattributed content, relying on what is audible — not on the video, the topic, or how the draft is worded.
- Stay consistent. Apply the same standards throughout a clip and across a batch.
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