Music & Sound Annotation Expert
micro1
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micro1 is engaging Music & Sound Annotation Experts to contribute to a customer's project at the forefront of music and audio technology. You'll listen to short field recordings and document what's audible — instruments, tempo, key, background sounds — through a structured web platform, with later phases involving grading AI model answers against what you actually heard.
What You’ll Do
- Listen to 30–90 second field recordings and complete structured annotations: instruments present, tempo and key, timestamps of background events, scene details
- Compare paired recordings of the same song captured at different locations and judge what stayed the same and what changed
- Review AI model descriptions of clips and mark what's correct, wrong, or invented, with brief written explanations
- Attend paid onboarding/calibration session and weekly sync meetings
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on music or audio experience
- Strong analytical listening: pick individual instruments out of busy, noisy, real-world mixes
- Identify tempo (within a few BPM) and musical key (relative pitch with reference is acceptable)
- Comfortable with detail-oriented, repetitive annotation work in web platform
- Clear written English for brief, evidence-based notes
- Quality headphones, quiet workspace, reliable internet
- Available 20–25 hrs/week for the engagement window
Who Should Apply
This suits working or gigging musicians, sound engineers, music educators, or audio professionals with genuinely trained ears and 3+ years hands-on experience — people who can reliably pick instruments out of noisy field recordings and justify what they heard in writing. It will frustrate anyone without formal music training, anyone who dislikes repetitive detailed work, or anyone in a noisy home environment; this is not a role you can do from a coffee shop or around background activity.
Salary Insight
At $30–$45/hr for contract audio work, this sits at the higher end of annotation work but reflects the specialized skills required — you need trained ears and music theory knowledge, not just general attention to detail. The wide range likely spans experience levels and possibly time zone variations. Clarify whether this is negotiable based on your background (professional musician vs. enthusiast with ear training) before accepting.
About Micro1
Platform connecting domain experts with AI training and evaluation projects, paid on a flexible contract basis.
Remote policy: Remote worldwide, excluding Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Macao, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine and Yemen. Individual projects may have…
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Compensation
$30 - $45/hr
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About Micro1
Platform connecting domain experts with AI training and evaluation projects, paid on a flexible contract basis.
Remote policy: Remote worldwide, excluding Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Macao, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine and Yemen. Individual projects may have…
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Application Tip
Lead with a specific example of a complex audio task you've solved — identifying instruments in a live recording, teaching ear training, mixing a difficult session, or working with field audio in documentary/podcast contexts. The posting emphasises analytical listening in "noisy, real-world" recordings, not studio work, so ground your pitch there. Brief mention of familiarity with any web-based annotation or QA tools will help, but they care much more about proof that your ears are reliable and your notes are precise.
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