[Hiring] French Voice Contributor @Welocalize

Role Description

What if your knowledge of French language could help improve the AI.

• Audition with two 30 second samples using your home studio set up.
• Once approved, you will complete two scheduled recording sessions of approximately 4 hours each.
• Participate in natural conversation, prompted discussion, and scripted customer-service scenarios.
• Record from your own home studio setup across both sessions.

Your Recording Environment

• An external microphone is absolutely required.
• A dry room: Your voice should sound close and clear, with no echo or hollow, distant quality.
• A quiet room: No HVAC hum, fans, traffic, appliances, or household noise during recording.

Minimum Required Gear

• Dynamic Mics (best for untreated rooms): Shure SM58, Shure MV7 / MV7+, RODE PodMic / PodMic USB, or similar.
• Condenser mic (great in a treated room): RODE NT-USB Mini, Blue Yeti / Yeti Orb, Blue Bluebird, Blue Baby Bottle, or similar.
• Room Treatment: Your recording space should produce studio-quality sound samples – isolation shields, sound absorbing pads, etc.
• Immediately rejected: built-in laptop microphones, phone mics, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headphone-attached mics, headsets, and gaming headsets.

Technical Specification

• You must be able to produce audio samples in the following specifications: WAV format, 24-bit, 48 kHz, no compression.
• Free software such as Audacity can produce this. If you cannot export in this format, please do not apply — this level of technicality is required for this role.

Qualifications

• Native-level French (Quebec) speaker.
• Natural, authentic, friendly, and conversational customer-service speaking style.
• Access to a professional home recording environment: high-quality microphone, pop filter, and a quiet space free of background noise.
• Ability to record audio meeting technical specifications: WAV format, 24-bit, 48kHz.