English Language Expert (Great Britain)

What You'll Do5

• Review multi-speaker conversational recordings and tag speaker and audio details, including dialect, accent, sound quality, background noise, age, and speaking style.
• Edit first-pass automatic speech recognition transcripts to follow British English spelling, usage, and conventions.
• Identify and categorize features across regional varieties, including Received Pronunciation, Estuary English, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Mancunian, West Country, Welsh English, and Scottish English.
• Apply knowledge of British vocabulary, idioms, slang, and spelling to improve the linguistic accuracy of project data.
• Follow consistent annotation standards across assigned project work.

Requirements4

• The role focuses on British English audio annotation.
• Project work involves identifying speaker and audio metadata in recordings with multiple speakers.
• Transcript review requires applying British English spelling, usage, and conventions.
• Annotation work covers regional dialect and accent features, as well as British vocabulary and idioms.

Preferred Qualifications6

• Fluent British English and familiarity with multiple regional dialects and accents.
• Experience in language teaching, linguistics, transcription, editing, translation, journalism, or a related field.
• Strong written and spoken communication, with close attention to language variation and usage.
• Skill in hearing subtle differences in British English pronunciation and vocabulary.
• Experience with audio data, metadata tagging, or transcription.
• Ability to work with detailed annotation guidelines independently, plus an interest in linguistic technology, AI training, or language data projects.

Who Should Apply

Candidates with fluent British English and a strong ear for regional pronunciation and vocabulary may suit this contract. Experience in teaching, linguistics, transcription, editing, translation, journalism, or audio data work is relevant.

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