Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) – French

Mercor

$50/hrRemotehourly
**Overview** We're looking for audio engineers with strong experience editing and quality-checking **voice recordings for speech and text-to-speech (TTS) applications**, specifically for **French-language audio**. This role focuses on preparing high-quality audio datasets for machine learning systems, ensuring clarity,

About the role

Overview

We're looking for audio engineers with strong experience editing and quality-checking voice recordings for speech and text-to-speech (TTS) applications, specifically for French-language audio. This role focuses on preparing high-quality audio datasets for machine learning systems, ensuring clarity, consistency, and technical compliance across large volumes of French speech data. Native or near-native French fluency is required to accurately assess speech quality, pronunciation, and naturalness.

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## What You'll Do

- Edit and process French voice recordings for use in TTS and speech AI systems

- Perform audio cleanup including silence trimming, breath reduction/removal, de-clicking, de-essing, and noise reduction

- Conduct detailed quality assurance checks for:

- Clipping and distortion

- Background noise and artifacts

- Loudness consistency and level balancing

- Ensure audio meets strict technical specifications for ML training pipelines

- Evaluate recordings for French pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, and fluency

- Work with large batches of recordings, maintaining consistency and throughput

- Collaborate with teams working on French speech datasets, voice talent recordings, and model training workflows

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## 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 tools like iZotope RX, Pro Tools, or similar audio restoration software

- Ability to identify and fix artifacts, inconsistencies, and technical defects in audio

- Experience working with high-volume audio datasets or structured workflows

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## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with TTS vendors or platforms …

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