Salary Range: 25 to 25 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: one-time)

Join our team as an Independent Contractor for Project Morava.

Project Morava aims to help build more natural and intelligent voice AI systems by collecting high-quality speech data from native speakers.

In this project, participants contribute by reading and recording short, scripted prompts in Russian. These recordings are used to train and evaluate speech recognition models, enabling voice assistants and AI systems to better understand and respond to real-world users.

Project Benefits

- The entire task takes approximately 2 hours, including time to review the guidelines

- Work on your own schedule

- Participate from anywhere within United States

- Record scripted prompts on your smartphone using the Appen Mobile app

Task Summary

You will use the Appen Mobile app on your smartphone to record 150 short, scripted voice prompts in Language. Each prompt is a brief spoken command — natural, everyday language. Simply read each prompt clearly and naturally, and you're done.

Requirements

- Must be a Native speaker of Russsian

- Must be currently residing in United States

- Must be 18 years old or above

- Must have a smartphone compatible with the Appen Mobile app

Payment

Get paid for just 2 hours of work — completed entirely on your smartphone, on your own schedule. Payment is issued upon completion of a full session of 150 prompts. The quality bar is simple to hit: just follow the recording guidelines, speak clearly and naturally, and you're good to go. If assigned fewer than 150 prompts, payment is adjusted proportionally.

Please Note

This project follows a first-come, first-served approach and operates with demographic quotas to ensure fair and balanced representation across all participant groups. As a result, some individuals may not receive a task assignment if their group has already been filled.

This role is a project-based opportunity with CrowdGen, where you will join the CrowdGen Community as an Independent Contractor. If selected, you will receive an email from CrowdGen regarding the creation of an account using your application email address. You will need to log in to this account and reset the password, complete the setup requirements, and proceed with your application for this project-based role.

Join us in shaping the future of voice AI. Your participation in Project Morava will directly help improve how technology understands and responds to real human speech.

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CrowdGen by Appen connects a global community of over 1 million contributors to help develop AI that is ethical, inclusive, and beneficial. The platform lets people earn money remotely by completing AI-related tasks that don’t require technical expertise, expanding participation beyond traditional workers. It charges clients for coordinating and validating these tasks, enabling the creation of AI datasets and models with diverse, representative inputs. Compared to other AI data-collection providers, CrowdGen emphasizes ethical development and diversity, ensuring voices from different backgrounds are represented in AI models. The company’s goal is to make AI development more equitable and trustworthy by broadening who participates in building and improving AI systems.

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Russian-US - Voice Recording Specialist

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