ASR & Transcription QA Specialist ( transcription & captioning)

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About The Opportunity

A fast-paced, innovation-driven company in the AI-enabled media & accessibility tech space, we specialize in high-accuracy speech-to-text solutions for global broadcast, edtech, and enterprise content platforms. We’re building next-gen transcription and captioning workflows powered by cutting-edge ASR systems—where precision, speed, and linguistic nuance meet at scale. Remote-first, globally distributed, and obsessed with quality, we’re looking for detail-oriented QA minds to ensure every word we deliver is clean, accurate, and contextually perfect.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Perform end-to-end quality assurance on ASR-generated transcripts and timed captions across multiple languages and dialects.
  • Identify and document transcription errors—omissions, misrecognitions, punctuation, speaker labeling, and timing drift.
  • Annotate, tag, and flag low-confidence segments for model retraining or human intervention.
  • Collaborate with engineering and linguistics teams to refine ASR performance based on QA feedback loops.
  • Maintain QA scorecards and KPI dashboards to track accuracy, turnaround time, and client-specific thresholds.
  • Contribute to QA playbook development—defining edge cases, style guides, and domain-specific rules (legal, medical, technical).

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have

  • ASR QA
  • Transcription Quality Assurance
  • Speech-to-Text Validation
  • Timecode Alignment
  • Audio-Text Synchronization
  • Microsoft Excel (for QA reporting)
  • Google Docs / Sheets (for collaborative annotation)
  • Basic familiarity with media players (VLC, QuickTime, Auphonic)

Preferred

  • Experience with Captioning Standards (CEA-608/708, SMPTE-TT)
  • Linguistic or NLP background (especially phonetics or dialect mapping)
  • Familiarity with ASR platforms (Whisper, Google Speech-to-Text, Azure Speech)

Benefits & Culture Highlights

  • 100% remote with flexible hours—work from anywhere in India.
  • Impact-driven culture: Your QA work directly improves AI model accuracy for millions of users.
  • Opportunities to grow into ASR training, linguistics, or product roles within the AI media stack.

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