About the role
From micro1’s listing.
Pay: $15 - $45/hour
Role Title: English Language Expert (Nigeria)
Role Type: Contractor
Nigeria, Remote
micro1 is engaging English Language Experts (Nigeria) to contribute to an impactful customer project. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.
Scope of Work
- Listen to multi-speaker conversational audio recordings, identifying and tagging key speaker and audio metadata such as dialect, accent, audio quality, background noise, age, and speaking style.
- Annotate and correct first-pass ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) transcripts, ensuring precise application of Nigerian English spelling, usage, and conventions.
- Utilize your knowledge of Nigerian accents, shaped by the mother tongues and regional varieties across the country, including Yoruba-influenced English, Igbo-influenced English, Hausa-influenced English, Edo English, Ijaw English, Efik English, Tiv English, and Nigerian Pidgin-influenced English, to accurately identify and categorize dialectal features.
- Apply your knowledge of Nigerian English vocabulary, idioms, slang, code-switching (such as English-Pidgin or English-Yoruba mixing), and spelling to enhance the linguistic accuracy of project data.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fluent proficiency in Nigerian English, with demonstrated familiarity across multiple dialects and regional accents.
- Background in language teaching, linguistics, transcription, editing, translation, journalism, or a related discipline.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a meticulous approach to language variation and usage.
- Ability to distinguish subtle differences in Nigerian English pronunciation and vocabulary across regions and ethnic groups.
- Experience working with audio data, metadata tagging, or transcription practices is beneficial.
- Adaptable, detail-oriented, and able to manage complex annotation guidelines independently.
- Interest in linguistic technology, AI training, or language data projects is a plus.
How micro1 screens people
- 01Apply on the listing page.
- 02Complete the AI recruiter interview. It asks about your experience and, for technical roles, tests the skill.
- 03If you pass, you are matched to a project when one opens.
Before you apply
- No real platform charges you to apply or to “unlock” work.
- Apply to two or three platforms, not one. Acceptance is never certain.
- It’s contract work in projects. Hours vary week to week.
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