Expert Audio Transcriber, Mesopotamian Arabic (Iraqi)

Perle is an AI infrastructure company building expert-driven training data, evaluation systems, and applied AI products for the world's leading labs and enterprises. They specialize in work requiring real human judgment, domain expertise, linguistic nuance, and cultural fidelity.

Location: Iraq

Responsibilities

• Transcribe audio recordings into accurate, time-aligned written text following Perle's project-specific style guide
• Apply correct conventions for speaker identification, overlapping speech, disfluencies, fillers, false starts, and non-speech events such as laughter, background noise, and music
• Make principled orthographic decisions for dialectal, colloquial, and code-switched speech
• Flag ambiguous segments, uncertain speakers, and audio quality issues using project conventions
• Self-review every submission against Perle's quality bar before delivery
• Engage with QA reviewers on edge cases, calibration sessions, and style guide updates

Requirements

• Native fluency in Iraqi Arabic with lifelong residence or deep immersion in Iraq
• Strong command of Modern Standard Arabic for orthographic decisions on dialectal speech
• Ability to distinguish Gilit and Qeltu varieties and major regional accents
• Familiarity with Persian, Turkish, and Aramaic loanwords as they appear in speech
• At least two years of professional transcription, captioning, court reporting, broadcast, translation, or linguistic annotation experience
• Demonstrated accuracy at the word level under deadline pressure
• Comfortable with web-based annotation platforms and variable-speed audio playback
• Reliable high-speed internet, quality headphones, and a quiet workspace
• Ability to commit to defined volume per week during active project phases