English Language Expert (Nigeria)

What You'll Do4

• Listen to recordings with multiple speakers and tag details such as dialect, accent, audio quality, background noise, age, and speaking style.
• Review and correct first-pass automatic speech recognition transcripts using Nigerian English spelling, usage, and conventions.
• Identify dialect features across Nigerian English varieties, including Yoruba-, Igbo-, and Hausa-influenced English, Edo, Ijaw, Efik, Tiv, and Nigerian Pidgin-influenced English.
• Apply knowledge of Nigerian English vocabulary, idioms, slang, spelling, and code-switching to improve the linguistic accuracy of project data.

Requirements3

• Listen to multi-speaker conversational audio and identify relevant speaker and recording details.
• Annotate and correct first-pass speech recognition transcripts.
• Use Nigerian English conventions and recognize dialect features, vocabulary, and code-switching in project data.

Preferred Qualifications6

• Fluent Nigerian English and familiarity with multiple regional dialects and accents.
• Education or 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.
• Ability to hear subtle pronunciation and vocabulary differences across Nigerian regions and ethnic groups.
• Experience with audio data, metadata tagging, or transcription practices.
• Adaptability, attention to detail, and comfort handling complex annotation guidelines independently.

Who Should Apply

Candidates with fluent Nigerian English and a good ear for the country's regional accents may be a fit. Experience in language teaching, linguistics, transcription, editing, translation, journalism, or audio annotation is welcome, especially alongside care with language detail.

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