Speech Language Pathologist Expert
$80-100
/hr
Voice actors record and review the speech data that AI voice models learn from. These roles involve recording voice samples, pronunciation evaluation, accent-specific tasks, and speech quality assessment. Non-English speakers with clear, native-level accents are in especially high demand. Pay varies dramatically by accent and platform: $20-$50/hr.
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$50-70
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Voice acting roles involve recording audio passages in a controlled environment, quiet room, decent microphone, and audio recording software (Audacity is free and sufficient). Tasks specify the character, emotion, pacing, and accent required. You'll record multiple takes for each prompt, sometimes in the same session with different emotional registers (professional, conversational, authoritative, warm). Sessions typically last 60-90 minutes. Some roles focus on specific dialects or accents for AI voice synthesis training; others involve narrating instructional content. Platforms often provide line-by-line scripts. Quality is assessed on clarity, natural delivery, and accurate accent representation. Professional voice acting training helps but isn't always required, natural talent and good audio hygiene matter most.
Not required. You need clear pronunciation, native accent, and good microphone quality. Some successful voice trainers are complete beginners. Platform provides brief training; you submit voice sample to qualify.
Quiet room, a decent USB microphone, and free recording software such as Audacity. You don't need studio-grade equipment to start; clean audio with no background noise matters more than studio sound.
This page is showing 291 listings, sourced from 11 platforms: Mercor (67), Meridial (54), AfterQuery (49), Alignerr (43) and Turing (25). The most recent one was picked up 2 days ago. The count moves as platforms post and close roles, so treat it as a snapshot of today rather than a fixed figure.
Most sit between $20 and $50 an hour, with a median of $23, measured across the 221 listings on this page that quote an hourly rate. The highest rate currently posted here is $500 an hour. These are the figures the platforms published, not our estimates, and the rate you are offered depends on how you do in that platform's assessment.
Both appear here. 45 listings pay per task or per project rather than by the hour, and the rest quote an hourly rate. Per-task work suits people who are fast and accurate, since your effective hourly rate depends on how long each unit takes you.
Mercor (67), Meridial (54), AfterQuery (49), Alignerr (43) and Turing (25). No single one dominates this category, so it is worth holding accounts on more than one. Most contracts allow you to work through several platforms at the same time.
The roles here fall across 11 areas, led by Languages (139), Voice Acting (84), Writing (25) and Data Science (13). The requirements named most often are Audio recording, JavaScript, Transcription, Attention to Detail and Audio editing. Each listing spells out its own task type, so read the individual page before applying.
106 of these listings first appeared in the last 30 days, out of 291 live now. We rescrape the source platforms daily, so a page you checked last week will not be the same page today.
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