Consultant - Annotator

1. Objective :- To perform high-precision, exact human transcription of selected audio recordings in Tamil and English. These transcriptions will serve as the Ground Truth for training an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) model for Oral Reading Fluency (ORF). 2. Scope of Work & Volumes The consultant will be responsible for approximately 475 hours of audio annotation across four task types. Annotation Volume Breakdown Task Type Tamil (360 Hours Total) English (115 Hours Total) Letters 40,000 utterances (8k children) 10,000 utterances (2k children) Words 20,000 utterances (4k children) 5,000 utterances (1k children) Non-Words 20,000 utterances (4k children) 5,000 utterances (1k children) Paragraphs 12,000 recordings (12k children) 4,000 recordings (4k children) 3. Technical Requirements A. Transcription Fidelity Exact Audio Match: Transcribe exactly what is heard, not what is written on the prompt. Tamil Nuances: Must include all reading miscues, mispronunciations, partially read words...