Native speakers of Hausa required (as spoken in Nigeria).

Summary of tasks

Appen Butler Hill is looking for native speakers of Hausa (as spoken in Nigeria) for transcription work. The work will involve listening to audio recordings of Hausa speech and typing down in Hausa what is said or fixing the given Hausa text to match the audio.

Essential skills

- Must be a native speaker of Hausa from Nigeria

- Language skills must be current i.e. the language is still spoken and written

- Can understand written English instructions

- Must have access to a computer with internet

- Basic typing skills

Payment:

Pay is calculated on a piecemeal rate.

Duration:

Approximately 4 – 8 weeks

Location:

This position is available to work from home.

How to apply:

To be considered for this role, please register your details with our AppenOnline database and sit the Hausa spelling test:

http://appenonline.appen.com.au

You will need to have an Internet connection with the latest version of Mozilla Firefox and Flash Player (links provided to install these).

About Appen Butler Hill:

Appen Butler Hill develops high quality speech and language technology solutions namely used in car navigation systems, mobile phones, word processing packages, directory assistance, speaker verification tools and hand-held machine translation devices. Our staff comprises Linguists, IT professionals and Project Managers who collaborate to produce quality work in over 100 different languages for many of the world’s leading companies.