Job Title: Text annotator
Description: To curate & annotate the recording of speech produced by people with speech disorders (i.e., dysarthria).
Sponsoring project: Speech Accessibility Project, the goal of which is to advance AI accessibility for people with disabilities.
Responsibilities
- Examine the recording of speech samples of individuals with Parkinson Disease and other neurological conditions
- Verify that speech sample matches the transcript
- Correct or mark errors (e.g., no voice recorded, personally identifiable information
- Annotate spontaneous speech
- Manually transcribe spontaneous speech
- Remove any personally identifiable information from the audio and text file
Qualifications
- Native speaker of American English
- Basic knowledge of manipulating sound files
- Attention to detail in speech sounds
- Organized and dependable
- Preferred experience
- Completion of LING 401 Introduction to General Phonetics or SHS 200 General Phonetics
- Listening to or communicating with persons having communication disorders
Start date: February, 2023
Hours of work: 10 hours/week
Pay: $13/hour
Division: Beckman Institute
If you are interested in the position or have any questions, contact hkim17@illinois.edu