The Role
We are hiring expert Galician transcribers to convert audio recordings of native speakers into precise, conventionally formatted written transcripts. The work powers speech recognition, dialogue, and evaluation systems for major AI labs. Audio ranges from clean studio recordings to natural conversational speech in real-world acoustic conditions.
You will be working at the level of expert linguistic judgment. This is not data entry. Decisions about orthography, code-switching, speaker attribution, disfluencies, and non-speech events shape the quality of every model trained on your output.
Dialect and Scope
Galician (galego) as spoken across the autonomous community of Galicia, with variation between coastal and inland varieties. Project audio includes natural Galician-Spanish code-switching common in everyday speech.
Primary speaker regions: A Coruna, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Ourense, Lugo, Pontevedra.
What You Will Do
- Transcribe audio recordings into accurate, time-aligned written text following Perle's project-specific style guide
- Apply correct conventions for speaker identification, overlapping speech, disfluencies, fillers, false starts, and non-speech events such as laughter, background noise, and music
- Make principled orthographic decisions for dialectal, colloquial, and code-switched speech
- Flag ambiguous segments, uncertain speakers, and audio quality issues using project conventions
- Self-review every submission against Perle's quality bar before delivery
- Engage with QA reviewers on edge cases, calibration sessions, and style guide updates
Must Have
- Native fluency in Galician with lifelong residence or deep immersion in Galicia
- Mastery of Galician orthography per the Real Academia Galega guidelines
- Ability to distinguish Galician from Portuguese and from Spanish in mixed audio
- Comfortable transcribing Galician-Spanish code-switching as it occurs naturally
- At least two years of professional transcription, captioning, cour
📌 Expert Audio Transcriber, Galician (España)
🏢 Perle
📍 España