AlignerrVoice & audio
Transcription - Mandarin
up to $45/hr
What you'll do
- Transcribe audio recordings accurately according to provided guidelines and formatting standards.
- Review and edit transcripts for accuracy, grammar, and consistency.
- Evaluate AI-generated transcriptions for correctness, punctuation, and readability.
- Provide constructive feedback to improve AI transcription quality and language models.
Candidate background
You’re a great fit if
- Enrolled in or have completed a Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution.
- Experience in transcription, editing, proofreading, or similar language-focused fields (Required).
- Access to reliable audio playback equipment and a quiet workspace (Required).
- Strong ability to produce accurate, detailed, and consistent transcriptions.
- Excellent attention to detail when reviewing spelling, grammar, and formatting.
- Interest in AI, natural language processing, and speech-to-text technology.
- Bonus: Experience with data labeling, linguistic annotation, RLHF, or other AI training projects.
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Alignerr's words
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Transciption - Mandarin (Contract)
Labelbox • Remote (United States preferred) Shape the data that powers frontier AI
Quick facts - Engagement | Hourly, at‑will contractor - Schedule | Fully remote & asynchronous (min. 15 hrs/week) - Pay Range (US) | $20 – $45 per hour - Start Date | Rolling — staffed as projects launch
What you’ll do - Transcribe audio recordings accurately according to provided guidelines and formatting standards. - Review and edit transcripts for accuracy, grammar, and consistency. - Evaluate AI-generated transcriptions for correctness, punctuation, and readability. - Provide constructive feedback to improve AI transcription quality and language models.
You’re a great fit if - Enrolled in or have completed a Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution. - Experience in transcription, editing, proofreading, or similar language-focused fields (Required). - Access to reliable audio playback equipment and a quiet workspace (Required). - Strong ability to produce accurate, detailed, and consistent transcriptions. - Excellent attention to detail when reviewing spelling, grammar, and formatting. - Interest in AI, natural language processing, and speech-to-text technology. - Bonus: Experience with data labeling, linguistic annotation, RLHF, or other AI training projects.
About the role - Flexible workload — work from anywhere, on your own schedule - High impact — your craft directly improves models used by top AI labs & Fortune 500 teams - Clear ownership — know exactly what success looks like and have autonomy to deliver - Growth potential — consistent high performers spearhead new programs and mentor incoming SMEs
Interview process - Complete a screening with Zara, our AI interviewer in English, to learn more about your background and experience.
About Labelbox Labelbox builds the data engine that accelerates breakthrough AI. Our platform, expert services, and marketplace let teams iterate on data as nimbly as they iterate on code, enabling safer, smarter models in production. We’re backed by SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins, and trusted by leading research labs and enterprises worldwide.
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Working with AlignerrPay, getting started and work, from Alignerr's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Billed weekly, Monday to Sunday, with approved work paid by the following Friday, according to Labelbox's help center. Payment goes through Stripe Connect or PayPal depending on your location, with one provider per country. intercom.help/labelbox/en/articles/13600616-alignerr-paym..., alignerr.com/process
- Before your first paid task
- Sign up, apply, verify your identity, set up billing and onboard. Some jobs add a Zara AI interview or domain assessments. alignerr.com/process
- How much work
- Time to your first project depends on demand and your skills, and there is no minimum number of hours. alignerr.com/faqs
- Contract
- Independent contractor, under terms with ALIGNERR LLC. alignerr.com/faqs, alignerr.com/privacy
Read on the pages linked above on 24 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 Alignerr's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Voice & audio
Across 372 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, $45, is in the middle half. Of the 92 distinct rates we count, 65 are lower and 26 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr (this platform) | 140 | $20 to $280 · median $50 |
| Meridial (Invisible) | 51 | $20 to $65 · median $31 |
| AfterQuery | 49 | $30 to $135 · median $55 |
| micro1 | 43 | $12 to $100 · median $30 |
| Lionbridge | 39 | $10 to $45 · median $22 |
Other open roles in Chinese
37 roles with a stated hourly rate in US dollars also ask for Chinese, on 12 platforms. Their top rates run from $14 to $200 an hour, with a median of $35.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 12 | $65 |
| micro1 | 6 | $30 to $200 · median $40 |
| Alignerr (this platform) | 5 | $30 to $35 |
| RWS TrainAI | 4 | $16.20 to $20.25 |
| SME Careers | 3 | $27 to $40 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 27 Aug 2026, and still on Alignerr's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by Alignerr
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 467f0b17-00b8-4f6b-9690-45d8a3fd41b8
Pay as the source states it: “$20-45/hr”.
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