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Job details

Pay

$20–$45 USD/hr

Engagement

Contract, part-time

Location

Remote

52 countries

Posted

Nov 14, 2026

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The work

You will listen to and analyze multi-speaker conversational audio in South African English. Your annotations will help capture how people speak across different dialects, accents, regions, and cultural settings.

  • Tag speaker and audio details, including dialect, accent, noise level, quality, age, and speaking style.
  • Review and correct speech-recognition transcripts using accurate South African English spelling, idioms, and usage.
  • Identify regional and cultural markers, including influences from Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, and other local languages.
  • Document colloquialisms, slang, and distinctive vocabulary such as braai, lekker, and robot.
  • Distinguish Cultivated, General, Broad, Afrikaans-influenced, Black, and Indian South African English varieties.

Requirements

  • Language: Fluent South African English, with a strong understanding of its dialects, accents, vocabulary, idioms, and local expressions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, close attention to detail, and consistent judgment when annotating speech, transcripts, and speaker metadata.

Open to applicants in

  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Austria
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Denmark
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Malaysia
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Nigeria
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Tunisia
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vietnam

Preferred

  • Helpful background: Teaching, linguistics, transcription, editing, translation, or journalism experience.

How to apply

  1. Press Apply now. You create a free OpenTrain account and add your resume.
  2. Finish your application on the hiring company's site. The company decides who it hires, so it runs its own form. It asks for your resume again, your LinkedIn profile, your phone number, your location and answers to 5 screening questions.
  3. Take a short AI interview.

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