Voice Director - Spanish (Colombia)

About this task

Work location: Remote in Colombia.
Engagement model: Independent contractor/freelance.
Estimated workload: 28 hours. Availability of up to 25 hours per week is preferred.
Estimated project duration: 2 weeks, with the possibility of extension.
Estimated start date: Immediate.
Languages required: Spanish (Colombia) and English.

Direct voice talents remotely for a Text-to-Speech (TTS) development project. Oversee recording sessions through the project’s proprietary platform, ensuring natural delivery and adherence to project guidelines.

Responsibilities:
- Monitor remote recording sessions and provide real-time coaching on pronunciation, tone, pacing, prosody, enunciation, and natural speech delivery.
- Maintain consistency across recording sessions.
- Verify compliance with project guidelines, recording standards, and scripts.
- Ensure recordings reflect authentic contemporary Spanish (Colombia).
- Identify and report technical or environmental issues affecting recording quality, including background noise, distortion, clipping, microphone artifacts, and other recording defects.

Requirements:
- Native fluency in Spanish (Colombia) and good English communication skills.
- Professional experience directing voice talents or demonstrable expertise in spoken Spanish (Colombia).
- Strong listening, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Professional experience in at least one of the following: voice direction or voice acting; linguistics, preferably phonetics, phonology, or sociolinguistics; speech technology; or voice coaching.

Preferred:
- Previous experience directing TTS projects.
- Knowledge of phonetics and speech production.
- Experience with speech, voice, or language-related projects.
- Familiarity with remote recording platforms or digital audio production workflows.