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Remote from Spain·Added 5 months ago
This job was published 5 months ago
Our summary
- Work mode
- Remote from Spain
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Spanish
- Native level
- Other languages
- Portuguese, Catalan, Galician
- Experience
- 2+ years
Visa options
The ad doesn’t mention sponsorship
Not a refusal, but not a yes. Worth asking in your first message.
Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Native fluency in Spanish with lifelong residence or deep immersion in your declared variety's region
- Mastery of Spanish orthography per current RAE / ASALE guidelines
- Strong ear for regional Spanish accents and ability to distinguish them in transcription
- Comfortable transcribing Spanish code-switching with English or regional indigenous languages where it occurs
- At least two years of professional transcription, captioning, court reporting, broadcast, translation, or linguistic annotation experience
- Demonstrated accuracy at the word level under deadline pressure
- Comfortable with web-based annotation platforms and variable-speed audio playback
- Reliable high-speed internet, quality headphones, and a quiet workspace
- Ability to commit to defined volume per week during active project phases
Nice to have
- Background in Hispanic linguistics, translation, journalism, or media
- Prior experience annotating Spanish-language speech data across multiple varieties
- Working knowledge of Catalan, Galician, or Portuguese for cross-lingual audio
- Familiarity with IPA or other phonetic transcription systems
- Experience with verbatim versus clean-verbatim transcription conventions
The role
We are hiring expert Spanish 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.
What you'll 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
DIALECT AND SCOPE
Spanish (Castellano) in its various regional standards. The project lead will define the target variety, which may be European Spanish or a Latin American variety such as Mexican, Rioplatense, Andean, or Caribbean Spanish, each with distinct phonology and vocabulary.
Primary speaker regions: Variety set per project (Castilian, Mexican, Rioplatense, Andean, Caribbean, and others).
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
- Paid pilot task before full onboarding so both sides can calibrate
- Per-task or per-minute compensation, with rates tied to audio complexity and turnaround
- Flexible scheduling, with volume scaling up and down based on active client projects
- Direct working relationship with Perle's linguistic leads and QA team
- Eligible for invitation to additional Perle expert projects across related domains
Hiring process
Apply here: https://winnow.perle.ai/jobs/90411b39-040b-48b7-9b90-fae66cba2340
Apply through Winnow, Perle's job portal at winnow.perle.ai. Find the role for your language under Open Jobs, set up your candidate profile, and complete the fully automated interview, which takes about 25 minutes. We review applications within 24 hours and invite passing candidates straight to the project.
About Perle
Perle is a company operating in the artificial intelligence sector, specializing in AI model training and data collection. Based on its careers page, Perle hires remote contractors for roles such as AI Model Training Experts and Audio Transcribers across numerous countries, indicating a focus on building diverse datasets for AI development.
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence
Good to know if you are moving
- Perle offers fully remote positions, allowing work from various countries including Spain.
- Roles are contract-based, focused on AI training and data annotation tasks.
- The company hires for multiple languages, including Spanish, Catalan, and Galician, which may benefit native speakers.
- No specific office locations are listed; work is location-independent.
In their own words
About the company & team
Perle is an AI infrastructure company building expert-driven training data, evaluation systems, and applied AI products for the world's leading labs and enterprises. Our partners include xAI, Samsung, ELM, and Unisys. Headquartered in San Francisco with experts across more than forty markets, we specialize in the work that requires real human judgment: domain expertise, linguistic nuance, and cultural fidelity that generic data vendors cannot deliver.
Additional information
Perle hires experts on the basis of skill, language proficiency, and demonstrated quality. We welcome applicants from every background and every region where our target languages are spoken.
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