English Language Expert (Nigeria)

Job Description

Role Title: English Language Expert (Nigeria)

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Nigeria, Remote

micro1 is engaging English Language Experts (Nigeria) to contribute to an impactful customer project. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.

Scope of Work

• Listen to multi-speaker conversational audio recordings, identifying and tagging key speaker and audio metadata such as dialect, accent, audio quality, background noise, age, and speaking style.

• Annotate and correct first-pass ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) transcripts, ensuring precise application of Nigerian English spelling, usage, and conventions.

• Utilize your knowledge of Nigerian accents, shaped by the mother tongues and regional varieties across the country, including Yoruba-influenced English, Igbo-influenced English, Hausa-influenced English, Edo English, Ijaw English, Efik English, Tiv English, and Nigerian Pidgin-influenced English, to accurately identify and categorize dialectal features.

• Apply your knowledge of Nigerian English vocabulary, idioms, slang, code-switching (such as English-Pidgin or English-Yoruba mixing), and spelling to enhance the linguistic accuracy of project data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent proficiency in Nigerian English, with demonstrated familiarity across multiple dialects and regional accents.

• Background in language teaching, linguistics, transcription, editing, translation, journalism, or a related discipline.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a meticulous approach to language variation and usage.

• Ability to distinguish subtle differences in Nigerian English pronunciation and vocabulary across regions and ethnic groups.

• Experience working with audio data, metadata tagging, or transcription practices is beneficial.

• Adaptable, detail-oriented, and able to manage complex annotation guidelines independently.

• Interest in linguistic technology, AI training, or language data projects is a plus.