About the Role:
We are looking for Native-level English (US) contributors with professional voice recording experience, including voice actors, dubbing artists, podcasters, and radio or broadcast hosts, to join the Hydrus Project. This means submitting a short audition, and if selected, completing two supervised recording sessions using your own professional microphone and a quiet space. Important Note: Candidates must have a professional microphone device, meaning a separate, dedicated microphone used specifically for recording or streaming.
Examples of acceptable devices include (but are not limited to):
RODE: NT-USB Mini, PodMic USB, Wireless GO/Pro Blue: Yeti, Yeti Orb, Bluebird, Baby Bottle Other professional recording microphones of similar quality are also acceptable.
Not Acceptable:
Built-in laptop microphones, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headsets, and gaming headsets are not acceptable. Key Responsibilities Submit two audition recordings: one natural, unscripted sample (~30 seconds) and one scripted customer-service sample (~30 seconds)
Welocalize is a language services and AI training data company with over 25 years of experience partnering with the world's most innovative technology companies. Through its Welo Data brand, Welocalize provides high-quality, ethically sourced datasets to supercharge AI models, leveraging a global community of over 500,000 AI training and domain experts. The company offers comprehensive services spanning annotation and labeling, LLM enhancement, data collection and generation, and relevance and intent ranking. Welocalize also operates Welo Works, a workforce management platform that powers data annotation services by handling worker sourcing, recruitment, and full lifecycle management.