Italian Audiobook QA Expert (Remote, Italy)
Listing checked September 15, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Overview
An AI narration team seeks native Italian (Italy) speakers who enjoy audiobooks to review text-to-speech recordings. You will judge how natural, accurate, and pleasant each narration feels, then log every stumble so the models behind the audio can improve. The work runs remote at about 20 hours each week, split into about 4 hours a day. You can live anywhere, though the team gives preference to candidates based in a region where Italian is a native language.
What You'll Do5
- 1Listen to AI-narrated Italian audiobooks and rate how natural, accurate, and enjoyable each narration sounds.
- 2Log speech errors such as skipped, added, or mispronounced words, numbers read wrong, abbreviations expanded in error, odd phrasing or intonation, and audio glitches or artifacts.
- 3Assign a category to each issue and mark the exact span where it occurs inside the review tool.
- 4Report overall listener satisfaction and point out where the narration feels natural versus where it breaks the listening experience.
- 5Stay alert across many hours of audio and maintain detail from start to finish.
Requirements8
- 1Native or near-native fluency in Italian (Italy).
- 2An active audiobook listener who can share real opinions about what makes a good listen.
- 3Working English strong enough to write reports and speak with the team.
- 4Background in annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, linguistics, or another review task that demands focus.
- 5A sharp, patient ear and the discipline to stay accurate across long listening sessions.
- 6Availability of about 20 hours each week on a part-time basis.
- 7Nice to have: prior work on AI training data, model evaluation, or audio and QA annotation projects.
- 8Nice to have: a background in language, editing, voice, or audio production.
Who Should Apply
The ideal candidate speaks Italian (Italy) as a first language, listens to audiobooks for pleasure, and can explain what makes a narration work. You also bring some background in annotation, labeling, transcription, proofreading, or linguistics, plus enough English to write clear reports. This role is less suitable for someone who wants full-time hours, cannot commit about 20 hours each week, or has no interest in audio detail. Applications often lose points when the candidate lists no review or annotation experience, or when their Italian fluency is not tied to Italy. Another common miss: treating the task as simple listening rather than structured error logging with exact timestamps and categories.
Salary Insight
The listing shows an hourly rate between $15 and $20. That range lines up with part-time remote annotation and audio QA work that asks for native language fluency.
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Compensation
$15–20/hr
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Application Tip
In your application, name the exact annotation or QA tools you have used, and quantify your audiobook review or transcription volume, such as hours of audio checked or number of labels produced. Pair that with a short note on your Italian (Italy) background and one example of an error category you would flag, like mispronounced numbers or skipped words.
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