Japanese Annotator - Freelance - Remote in Japan

Work location: Remote in Japan

Engagement model: Independent Contractor/Freelance

Workload: approx. 10 hours/week

Estimated project duration: 2 months

Estimated project start: January 2026

Languages Needed: Japanese and English

Role Summary:

DataForce by TransPerfect is seeking skilled Japanese-speaking Annotators for an exciting and innovative artificial intelligence project.

As a Japanese Annotator, you will be responsible for sourcing, listening to, transcribing, annotating, and labeling Japanese audio data to support the development of state-of-the-art AI technologies.

Role Responsibilities:

• Identify and source Japanese-language audio content from the internet (such as podcasts, videos, etc.)

• Transcribe Japanese audio recordings to create high-quality datasets for language model training

• Annotate and label audio and text data according to project guidelines

• Assess and evaluate the performance of Audio Speech Recognition systems

• Assess and evaluate the output of Text-to-Speech models

• Curate data to build golden datasets