Appen Butler Hill Recruits Native speakers of Hausa (as spoken in Nigeria)

Appen Butler Hill develops high quality speech and language technology solutions namely used in car navigation systems, mobile phones, word processing packages, directory assistance, speaker verification tools and hand-held machine translation devices. Our staff comprises Linguists, IT professionals and Project Managers who collaborate to produce quality work in over 100 different languages for many of the world’s leading companies.

Appen Butler Hill is looking for native speakers of Hausa (as spoken in Nigeria) for transcription work.

Job Title: Native speakers of Hausa required (as spoken in Nigeria).

Summary of tasks
Appen Butler Hill is looking for native speakers of Hausa (as spoken in Nigeria) for transcription work. The work will involve listening to audio recordings of Hausa speech and typing down in Hausa what is said or fixing the given Hausa text to match the audio.

Essential skills

• Must be a native speaker of Hausa from Nigeria
• Language skills must be current i.e. the language is still spoken and written
• Can understand written English instructions
• Must have access to a computer with internet
• Basic typing skills

Payment
Pay is calculated on a piecemeal rate.

Duration
Approximately 4 – 8 weeks

Location
This position is available to work from home.

Application Closing Date
1st June, 2013

How to Apply
To be considered for this role, please register your details with our AppenOnline database and sit the Hausa spelling test:
Click Here To Apply Online

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