ASR & Transcription QA Specialist

Employment: 3-Month Contract

Role Overview

Perform high-fidelity ASR benchmarking, transcript auditing, and ground-truth text verification. The role involves correcting machine-generated transcripts, identifying WER errors, performing speaker diarization, and handling overlapping dialogue.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and correct machine-generated long-form transcripts.
• Identify and correct substitution, insertion, and deletion errors.
• Perform speaker diarization and audio segmentation, including overlapping speech.
• Capture stutters, false starts, filler words, pauses, and non-verbal sounds.
• Follow strict verbatim and clean-read style conventions.
• Support OCR and narrative QA by verifying extracted text and captions.

Mandatory Requirements

• 2-3+ years professional experience in transcription, captioning, subtitling, or court reporting in media/transcription services.
• 65+ WPM typing speed with 99% accuracy.
• Strong understanding of WER metrics, timecoding standards, and orthographic style guides.