Odia speakers: your script skills are in demand
Transcribe children's reading recordings in Odia script: precise, meaningful annotation work that teaches machines to understand young readers.
- Fully remote
- Work when you want
- Paid per accepted task
About the project
Speech recognition for children's voices is one of the hardest problems in the field: kids repeat, mumble, self-correct and trail off. For Odia, the technology is only as good as the humans who transcribe those recordings faithfully.
That's this project. You'll listen to children reading aloud in Odia, transcribe exactly what was said, every repetition and disfluency included, add timestamps where required, and apply annotation labels for silence, noise, fillers, mumbling and adult voices. The dataset trains and evaluates ASR models for children's reading assessment.
What you'll do
- Listen to assigned Odia audio recordings of children reading
- Transcribe speech exactly as spoken, in Odia script
- Capture repetitions, disfluencies and false starts faithfully
- Add timestamps and annotation labels (Silence, Noise, Fillers, Mumbling, Adult Voice) per the guidelines
- Submit accurate, quality-checked work on schedule
Who we're looking for
- Native or fluent Odia speakers who read and write Odia fluently
- Careful listeners with real attention to detail
- People comfortable with "verbatim means verbatim": you write what was said, not what should have been said
Requirements
- Laptop or desktop, headphones, stable internet
- Comfortable typing in Odia script
- Ability to follow labeling guidelines exactly
- Paid per completed task
How it works
- 01Create your accountSign up free with your email or Google. Takes about a minute.
- 02Complete your profileTell us your languages, location and setup so we can match you.
- 03You're automatically appliedSign up from this page and your application to this project is submitted for you.
- 04Our team reviews and onboards youApplications are reviewed on a rolling basis and we follow up by email.
Frequently asked questions
The child mispronounces or repeats a word. What do I write?
Exactly what you heard. The entire value of this dataset is faithfulness: models must learn how children actually read, hesitations and all. The guidelines cover every case with examples.
Do I need annotation experience?
Helpful but not required. If you're a fluent Odia reader-writer with patience and precision, the guidelines and the QA feedback loop will get you to standard quickly.
How flexible are the hours?
Fully. Tasks are assigned in batches and you work when you want within the deadline. Consistent, on-time submitters get larger batches.
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