Speech Recognition in Agriculture and Finance for the Poor in India
Speech recognition in agriculture and finance for the poor is an initiative predominantly to create resources and make them available as a digital public good in the open source domain to spur research and innovation in speech recognition in nine different Indian languages in the area of agriculture and finance. Nine Indian languages considered for this project are Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Kannada, Magadhi, Chhattisgarhi, and Maithili.
Speech recognition in agriculture and finance for the poor is an initiative predominantly to create resources and make them available as a digital public good in the open source domain to spur research and innovation in speech recognition in nine different Indian languages in the area of agriculture and finance. Nine Indian languages considered for this project are Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Kannada, Magadhi, Chhattisgarhi, and Maithili.
Skills/ requirements
Basic Computer Knowledge and typing skills
Should be able to read and understand native language (local dialect as well the standard version of the language)
Should be native to one of the nine languages (Hindi, Telugu, Chhattisgarhi, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Maithili,
Magahi, Bhojpuri).
Having a degree in native language related course or program is a plus
Must have their Laptop / Desktop at home.
Must have good knowledge of google docs, sheets, google transliteration
Should have good internet connectivity
Job Location
This work can be done from anywhere. It is a work from home (WFH) job.
Qualification
Undergraduate, Graduate, Post Graduate can apply.
Freshers and Experienced both can apply for these jobs.
Basic remuneration
₹2000 for 1000 sentences translated
Job description and responsibility
A set of sentences will be given to you in the standard dialect of the chosen language.
The task will be to read & understand the sentence. Then if required, we expect you to modify/translate the sentence
to match your native dialect
The candidate is expected to write the sentences without any typos/ grammatical errors.
The candidate should be regular with the given task.
An interested candidate needs to go through a pilot task and will be selected for the job only if they are found to
perform satisfactorily.