AfterQueryVoice & audio
Bilingual Audio Contributor (Indian/English)
$30/hr
About this role, in AfterQuery's words
Bilingual speakers of Indian languages and English to record and review the speech data frontier AI labs train and evaluate on.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Record scripted and conversational speech in your Indian language and English
- Produce natural code switched recordings that mirror how bilingual speakers actually talk
- Review and correct transcriptions of recordings for accuracy
- Flag audio that sounds natural but mismatches its transcript
Candidate background
Who this is for
- Native speakers of an Indian language such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, or Kannada who are also fluent in English
- People comfortable recording their own speech and following prompt specifications precisely
- People with access to a quiet space and a microphone that produces clean audio
- Detail oriented reviewers who catch small transcript errors
Required qualifications
- Native fluency in an Indian language and full professional fluency in English
- A quiet recording environment and a microphone that produces clean audio
- Comfort recording your own speech and following detailed prompt specifications
- Able to commit at least 10 hours per week
Preferred qualifications
- Voice over, podcasting, or audio production experience
- Transcription or data annotation experience
- Native level fluency in more than one Indian language
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in AfterQuery's words
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Bilingual speakers of Indian languages and English to record and review the speech data frontier AI labs train and evaluate on.
AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring bilingual speakers of Indian languages and English as contractors to record and review the speech data those models train and evaluate on.
What you'll actually do
• Record natural speech in your Indian language and English, from scripted prompts to free conversation
• Produce code switched recordings that mirror how bilingual speakers actually talk
• Review and correct transcriptions of recordings
• Flag audio that sounds natural but mismatches its transcript
Who this is for
• Native speakers of an Indian language such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, or Kannada who are also fluent in English
• People comfortable recording their own speech and following prompt specifications precisely
• People with access to a quiet space and a microphone that produces clean audio
• Detail oriented reviewers who catch small transcript errors
Contract and pay
• $20 to $40/hr , paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
• Remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
• Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
• Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
How our hiring process works
• Apply at /apply/bilingual-audio-contributor-indian-english. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
• Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
• Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
• Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
• Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.
Responsibilities - Record scripted and conversational speech in your Indian language and English - Produce natural code switched recordings that mirror how bilingual speakers actually talk - Review and correct transcriptions of recordings for accuracy - Flag audio that sounds natural but mismatches its transcript
Required qualifications - Native fluency in an Indian language and full professional fluency in English - A quiet recording environment and a microphone that produces clean audio - Comfort recording your own speech and following detailed prompt specifications - Able to commit at least 10 hours per week
Preferred qualifications - Voice over, podcasting, or audio production experience - Transcription or data annotation experience - Native level fluency in more than one Indian language
Why apply - $20 to $40/hr, paid weekly via Stripe - 100% remote and fully async - Help frontier models understand Indian languages and accents - Ongoing project work with hours you set each week
Working with AfterQueryPay, getting started and work, from AfterQuery's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
- Before your first paid task
- One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
- How much work
- Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
- Contract
- Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
How does the pay compare?Across Voice & audio roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from AfterQuery's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Voice & audio
Across 389 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 11 platforms, the middle half pays $20 to $50 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $30. This role's top rate, $30, is in the middle half. Of the 93 distinct rates we count, 44 are lower and 40 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 156 | $20 to $280 · median $50 |
| Meridial (Invisible) | 51 | $20 to $65 · median $31 |
| AfterQuery (this platform) | 48 | $30 to $135 · median $55 |
| micro1 | 39 | $12 to $70 · median $28 |
| Lionbridge | 39 | $10 to $45 · median $22 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 28 Aug 2026, and still on AfterQuery's list when we last read it on 24 Oct 2026.
- Listed pay changed on 4 Sep 2026: up to $40/hr before, $30/hr after.
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- Posted by AfterQuery
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- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 1787857219483
Pay as the source states it: “$30/hr”.
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