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Marathi Subject Matter Expert – Audio Transcription (AI Training)
up to $35/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
What if your deep command of Marathi and your leadership instincts could directly shape how AI learns to understand spoken language? We're looking for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead our Marathi audio transcription project. You'll oversee a team of language labelers and reviewers, provide linguistic guidance, and help ensure consistent, accurate, and high-quality output across the project.
What you'll do
- Lead and support a team of Marathi-specific labelers and reviewers throughout the project
- Serve as the primary language and project subject matter expert, providing guidance on transcription, labeling, and language-specific questions
- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and quality standards are maintained across all project work
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- Monitor team performance and identify recurring quality issues, trends, or areas requiring additional guidance
- Conduct regular audits of labeling and reviewing work and provide actionable feedback
- Manage project-related communications and questions through Discord
- Host Office Hours to answer questions, clarify guidelines, and provide ongoing support to the labeling and reviewing teams
- Help identify ambiguities or gaps in project guidelines and escalate issues when necessary
- Participate in team meetings, calibration sessions, and project discussions
- Support alignment between labelers and reviewers to ensure consistent application of project guidelines
- Communicate important project updates, changes, and quality expectations to the assigned language team
- Collaborate with Project Operators and Project Managers to address quality, workflow, and performance concerns
Candidate background
Who You Are
- Native proficiency in Marathi
- Strong understanding of Marathi grammar, vocabulary, regional or dialectal variation, pronunciation, and natural spoken usage
- Experience with audio transcription, data labeling, linguistic annotation, quality assurance, or AI/ML data projects preferred
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify subtle linguistic, transcription, or labeling errors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Marathi
- Experience providing feedback, coaching, or leading teams is preferred
- Comfortable working independently and managing multiple project priorities
- Familiarity with Discord or similar online collaboration platforms
- Why Join Us
- Lead a team on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading research labs
- Fully remote and flexible work
- Shape how AI understands and processes spoken Marathi for millions of people
- Build specialized leadership and quality-assurance skills in AI data pipelines
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch
- Compensation
- Pay: $15–35/hour USD
- Time is tracked through Hubstaff
- Hours may vary based on project demands, team needs, and project volume
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Alignerr's words
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Marathi Subject Matter Expert – Audio Transcription (AI Training)
About the Role
What if your deep command of Marathi and your leadership instincts could directly shape how AI learns to understand spoken language? We're looking for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead our Marathi audio transcription project. You'll oversee a team of language labelers and reviewers, provide linguistic guidance, and help ensure consistent, accurate, and high-quality output across the project.
This is a hands-on leadership role that rewards sound judgment, clear communication, and a sharp ear for language. You'll guide a team through the natural messiness of real-world audio while keeping quality standards high and the team aligned.
- Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: Hours may vary based on project demands, team needs, and project volume What You'll Do
* Lead and support a team of Marathi-specific labelers and reviewers throughout the project * Serve as the primary language and project subject matter expert, providing guidance on transcription, labeling, and language-specific questions * Ensure accuracy, consistency, and quality standards are maintained across all project work * Monitor team performance and identify recurring quality issues, trends, or areas requiring additional guidance * Conduct regular audits of labeling and reviewing work and provide actionable feedback * Manage project-related communications and questions through Discord * Host Office Hours to answer questions, clarify guidelines, and provide ongoing support to the labeling and reviewing teams * Help identify ambiguities or gaps in project guidelines and escalate issues when necessary * Participate in team meetings, calibration sessions, and project discussions * Support alignment between labelers and reviewers to ensure consistent application of project guidelines * Communicate important project updates, changes, and quality expectations to the assigned language team * Collaborate with Project Operators and Project Managers to address quality, workflow, and performance concerns Who You Are
* Native proficiency in Marathi * Strong understanding of Marathi grammar, vocabulary, regional or dialectal variation, pronunciation, and natural spoken usage * Experience with audio transcription, data labeling, linguistic annotation, quality assurance, or AI/ML data projects preferred * Strong attention to detail and ability to identify subtle linguistic, transcription, or labeling errors * Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Marathi * Experience providing feedback, coaching, or leading teams is preferred * Comfortable working independently and managing multiple project priorities * Familiarity with Discord or similar online collaboration platforms Why Join Us
* Lead a team on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading research labs * Fully remote and flexible work * Shape how AI understands and processes spoken Marathi for millions of people * Build specialized leadership and quality-assurance skills in AI data pipelines * Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch Compensation
* Pay: $15–35/hour USD * Time is tracked through Hubstaff * Hours may vary based on project demands, team needs, and project volume
Working with AlignerrPay, getting started and work, from Alignerr's own pages
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- 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
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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, $35, is in the middle half. Of the 93 distinct rates we count, 54 are lower and 33 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 Marathi
12 roles with a stated hourly rate in US dollars also ask for Marathi, on 7 platforms. Their top rates run from $16 to $65 an hour, with a median of $35.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 4 | $65 |
| SME Careers | 2 | $20 to $25 |
| RWS TrainAI | 2 | $16 to $18 |
| Rise Data Labs | 1 | $45 |
| DataAnnotation | 1 | $40 |
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- First seen here on 7 Oct 2026, and still on Alignerr's list when we last read it on 12 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by Alignerr
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- c4de5c77-7f62-4edd-b662-e09d1a98fdca
Pay as the source states it: “$15-35/hr”.
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