Finnish Speech & Audio AI Specialist

About the role

As a Finnish Speech & Audio AI Specialist you will evaluate and validate speech AI systems to ensure natural‑sounding voices, accurate transcription and high‑quality datasets. Your work will directly influence the voice‑based experiences of millions of users worldwide.

Key responsibilities

• Assess AI‑generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation, rhythm, tone and emotion.
• Identify transcription errors and linguistic nuances in ASR outputs.
• Perform audio quality checks (loudness, noise, clipping, distortion) and document findings.
• Edit and restore audio samples using professional DAWs, applying segmentation, trimming, noise reduction and enhancement.
• Validate and annotate speech recordings to create high‑quality training datasets.
• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity and conversational AI evaluation projects and contribute to quality‑assurance workflows.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Audio Engineering, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech‑Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science (Speech/AI focus) OR 2+ years of professional experience in audio production, dialogue editing, podcast post‑production or AI speech projects.
• Native‑level Finnish (C1/C2+) and professional English (B1+) for accurate linguistic assessment and documentation.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one professional audio tool (e.g., Adobe Audition, iZotope RX, Pro Tools, Reaper, Audacity, Logic Pro, Cubase).

Required skills

• Audio editing and restoration using DAWs such as Adobe Audition, iZotope RX, Pro Tools, Reaper, Audacity, Logic Pro or Cubase.
• Noise reduction, spectrogram analysis, waveform interpretation and audio quality assessment.
• Professional audio segmentation, trimming, enhancement and annotation techniques.