Audio Engineer, Speech / TTS Audio Specialist – French (Remote, Contract, AI training) — Mercor via AI Gig Scout

Mercor is looking for audio engineers with strong experience editing and quality-checking French voice recordings for speech and text-to-speech (TTS) applications. The work prepares high-quality French speech datasets for machine learning systems. Remote contract at $50/hr. Native or near-native French fluency is required to assess speech quality, pronunciation and naturalness.

You will edit and process French voice recordings for TTS and speech AI systems; clean up audio (silence trimming, breath reduction/removal, de-clicking, de-essing and noise reduction); run detailed QA checks for clipping and distortion, background noise and artifacts, and loudness consistency and level balancing; make sure audio meets strict technical specifications for ML training pipelines; evaluate recordings for French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness and fluency; and work through large batches of recordings while keeping consistency and throughput.

Basic qualifications: native or near-native French speaker with strong listening intuition for French speech nuances; experience editing speech or voice recordings (not just music production); strong understanding of speech audio quality standards and common issues in recorded dialogue; hands-on experience with iZotope RX, Pro Tools or similar audio restoration software; ability to identify and fix artifacts, inconsistencies and technical defects; experience with high-volume audio datasets or structured workflows. Preferred: experience with TTS vendors or platforms; prior involvement in speech ML, voice AI or dataset creation/annotation; familiarity with audio QA pipelines, labeling or evaluation; experience directing or editing French voice talent recordings.

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