QAGENIC TECHNOLOGIES
Website:
qagenic.com
Job details:
Job Description Language Expert
Position: Language Expert
Experience: 2–7 Years
Location: Noida
Work Mode: Work From Office
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
We are looking for experienced ASR Language Experts / Linguists to support the development and quality evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. The role involves evaluating speech-to-text outputs, identifying linguistic errors, and ensuring high accuracy, fluency, and naturalness across Indic languages.
Languages Required
We are looking for experts in Indic languages other than Hindi and English, including:
- Kannada
- Telugu
- Tamil
- Malayalam
- Bengali
- Marathi
- Gujarati
- Punjabi
- Odia
- Assamese
- Other Indian regional languages
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate and validate ASR / Speech-to-Text outputs.
- Perform transcription, annotation, and linguistic quality checks.
- Identify errors in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, and context.
- Compare audio input with ASR-generated transcripts and assess accuracy.
- Perform word-level and sentence-level error analysis.
- Evaluate speech data for accents, dialects, pronunciation, background noise, and code-switching.
- Identify linguistic and cultural issues affecting ASR performance.
- Maintain accuracy and consistency while following defined linguistic guidelines.
- Collaborate with QA, AI/ML, NLP, and engineering teams to improve ASR models.
- Prepare error reports and provide actionable linguistic feedback.
- Support dataset creation, annotation, validation, and model evaluation activities.
Required Skills
- 2–7 years of experience in Linguistics, Language QA, ASR, NLP, Speech Technology, Transcription, or related fields.
- Native or near-native proficiency in at least one Indic language other than Hindi/English.
- Strong understanding of grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, and regional language nuances.
- Experience with speech/audio transcription and linguistic annotation.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to identify subtle linguistic and pronunciation errors.
- Comfortable working with large volumes of audio and text data.
Good to Have
- Experience working on ASR, TTS, STT, NLP, Voice Assistants, or Conversational AI projects.
- Experience with linguistic annotation tools.
- Knowledge of WER (Word Error Rate), CER (Character Error Rate) and other ASR evaluation metrics.
- Exposure to AI/ML model evaluation.
- Experience with accents, dialects, code-mixed speech, and noisy audio.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate should have a strong linguistic background combined with an interest in AI, Speech Technology, and NLP. Candidates who have worked on ASR/STT quality evaluation, transcription, language QA, or speech data annotation will be preferred.
Location: Noida
Work Mode: Work From Office
Experience: 2–7 Years
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