SPEECH RECOGNITION IN AGRICULTURE

AND FINANCE FOR THE POOR IN INDIA

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SPIRE LAB, IISc, has taken initiative to create resources for speech technology development such as automatic speech
recognition (ASR). There are job opportunities in this project in the position of speech recording collection and
transcription.

Job Profile Name

Speech recordings along with transcription in your local dialect

Skills/ requirements
Basic Computer Knowledge and typing skills
Should be able to read and understand native language (local dialect as well the standard version of the language)
Having a degree in native language related course or program is a plus
Must have their Laptop / Desktop at home.
Must have a smartphone.
Must have good knowledge of google docs, sheets, google transliteration
Should have good internet connectivity.

Job Location
This work can be done from anywhere.

Qualification
Undergraduate, Graduate, Post Graduate can apply.
Freshers and Experienced both can apply for these jobs.

Basic remuneration
Upto 2000 INR for one hour of speech

Job description and responsibility

A set of topics will be given to you and the task will be to read, understand and get familiarised with the given set of
topics in agriculture, finance and general domains.
You have to then converse/ talk to people (friends, relatives etc) in the local dialect of the chosen language.
The recordings have to be transcribed exactly in that dialect and should submit both recordings and transcription.
The candidate should be regular with the given task.
An interested candidate needs to go through a pilot task and will be selected for the job only if they are found to
perform satisfactorily.