What are the responsibilities and job description for the Voice recording (South African Accent, South Africa) position at Mercor?
We are collecting audio accents for a multi-lingual AI platform. We’re collecting :3 hours of phone audio where speakers spell out names, emails, and phone numbers naturally — like talking to customer support. There will be different variations, environments you will need to work with (quietly, muffled voice, Phone on speaker-mode etc.) How it works:
- You’ll call a demo line and record short sessions (caller side only).
- Each call should sound natural — vary tone, pace, and include small pauses or filler words (“umm,” “let’s see,” etc.).
- Must be real phone calls (no VoIP). Include some background noise for realism.
- Must be based in USA, Canada or UK (the phone numbers you will call will be for these geos, we will not reimburse for international calling)
- Must have a South African Accent from South Africa
- Upto 30 phone calls in 6 variations (:180 calls)
- The code provided by the agent during the call
- Enter call data on a sheet shared with you (meta data, phone call code etc.)
- Speaker ID or name
- Gender
- Age group
- Primary language
- Geographic ethnicity
- Your turnaround time will be 3 hours of conversation that needs to be filled before 12/28 (28th December)