
Audiobook QA Expert - French, Remote France
Listing checked September 18, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Key details
- Pay
- $15–20/hr
- Location
- Remote · Remote — preferred: France
- Job type
- hourly
- Openings
- 10
- Posted
- September 14, 2026
Overview
Mercor seeks native French (France) speakers to review AI-narrated audiobooks made with text-to-speech. You listen as an audiobook fan but with a critical ear, then flag where narration slips so model teams can improve the output. The work is remote and part-time at near 20 hours per week, with about 4 hours per day. You can live anywhere, though the team prefers candidates based in a region where French is a native language. Review tasks center on audio QA and annotation inside a review tool.
What You'll Do6
- Listen to French AI-narrated audiobooks and judge how natural, accurate, and enjoyable each narration sounds.
- Find and log errors in synthesized speech, including skipped or added words, mispronounced terms, numbers read wrong, abbreviations expanded wrong, odd phrasing or intonation, and audio glitches or artifacts.
- Assign each issue a category and mark the exact audio span where it occurs with the review tooling.
- Report on listener satisfaction and note where narration feels natural versus where it disrupts the listening experience.
- Stay accurate across many hours of audio and keep focus on detail.
- Communicate with the team in English when you need to clarify a finding or align on review standards.
Requirements8
- Native or near-native fluency in French (France).
- Active audiobook listener who has real opinions about what makes a good listen.
- Working English for clear reports and team communication. Bilingual fluency is not required.
- Some experience with annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, linguistics, or another detail-focused review task.
- Sharp, patient ear and the discipline to remain accurate over long listening sessions.
- Availability of about 20 hours per week on a part-time basis.
- Prior work on AI training-data, model-evaluation, or audio QA annotation projects is a plus.
- A background in language, editing, voice, or audio production is a plus.
Who Should Apply
The ideal candidate is a native French (France) speaker who listens to audiobooks often and can explain what makes narration work. You have some annotation, transcription, proofreading, or linguistics experience and can keep detail sharp across long audio sessions. This role fits someone who wants part-time remote work near 20 hours per week and can meet that schedule. Candidates who lack French (France) fluency or cannot document errors with precision will struggle. Applicants often score low when they show general listening habits but no review, annotation, or QA work, or when their French comes from another region and not France, and weak written English for reports is another common miss.
Salary Insight
Pay ranges from $15 to $20 per hour. This range matches many part-time remote annotation and audio QA contracts at the entry to mid level. The source gives no details on benefits or full-time conversion.
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