French TTS Audio Engineer

About OpenTrain

OpenTrain AI is the #1 platform for finding and building careers in AI training and data labeling. We help contributors discover opportunities, build a professional AI training profile, and grow in a rapidly expanding industry where human expertise directly shapes how AI systems work.

About AI Speech Training

Speech AI systems learn from carefully prepared recordings that people edit, review, and evaluate. Audio contributors help improve text-to-speech and voice technologies by ensuring recordings are technically clean, consistent, accurately pronounced, and natural-sounding.

The Role

OpenTrain AI is hiring a French-language audio engineer to prepare high-quality French audio datasets for text-to-speech and speech AI systems. You will edit voice recordings, perform detailed audio quality checks, and evaluate French pronunciation, fluency, and naturalness across large batches of files.

This is a remote, project-based opportunity open worldwide. The engagement is part-time contract work requiring 20+ hours per week.

• Pay: $50 USD per hour
• Work arrangement: Remote and worldwide
• Engagement: Part-time contractor
• Experience level: Entry level

What You'll Do

You will support structured speech-data workflows by preparing recordings for machine learning pipelines and maintaining consistent technical and linguistic quality across high-volume batches.

• Edit and process French voice recordings for TTS and speech AI systems
• Trim silence and reduce or remove breaths, clicks, sibilance, and background noise
• Perform de-clicking, de-essing, noise reduction, and other audio restoration tasks
• Check recordings for clipping, distortion, background noise, loudness consistency, and level balance
• Ensure audio meets strict technical specifications for machine learning training pipelines
• Evaluate French pronunciation accuracy, fluency, and naturalness
• Work consistently and efficiently across large batches of recordings
• Collaborate on French speech datasets, voice talent recordings, and model training workflows

Requirements

This role requires native or near-native French fluency, strong listening intuition for French speech, and practical experience editing spoken-word or voice recordings. Candidates should be comfortable identifying and correcting both technical audio defects and pronunciation or naturalness issues.

• Native or near-native French speaker
• Experience editing speech or voice recordings, rather than only music production
• Strong understanding of speech audio quality standards and common recorded-dialogue issues
• Hands-on experience with iZotope RX, Pro Tools, or similar audio restoration software
• Ability to identify and fix audio artifacts, inconsistencies, and technical defects
• Experience working with high-volume audio datasets or structured workflows
• Ability to evaluate French pronunciation accuracy and naturalness
• Availability for 20+ hours per week

Helpful Background

The following experience is helpful for this project, although it is not listed as required.

• Experience working with TTS vendors or platforms
• Prior involvement in speech machine learning, voice AI, or dataset creation and annotation
• Familiarity with audio quality assurance, labeling, or evaluation processes
• Experience directing or editing French voice talent recordings

Why Work in AI Training

AI training is the human side of building modern artificial intelligence. Audio specialists help shape how speech systems understand and produce language, making this a flexible way to contribute to cutting-edge technology from anywhere.

• Remote work with flexible project-based opportunities
• Use specialized audio and language skills in a fast-growing technology field
• Help improve the quality and naturalness of next-generation speech AI systems