Swedish Linguist

TELUS International is looking for Linguists fluent in Swedish for a remote project. Linguists will be dealing with tasks that cover written and spoken modality differences of the target language which will be used to support and improve AI-led conversational interfaces (virtual assistants).

Schedule : start date as soon as possible and expected to run at least 3 months

Availability required : preferably 20 hours/week (fewer or more hours might also be acceptable)

Work mode : remote freelance basis

Key Qualifications And Requirements

• Idiomatic fluency in Swedish
• Degree in Linguistics
• Ability to work in an English-speaking environment.
• Ability to work with data sets in Excel and CSV formats
• Adjudication and quality assessment on natural utterances in spoken and written modalities
• Annotation experience (e.g. semantic annotation)
• Comprehensive QA reporting, including threshold metrics for locale naturalness
• Data curation, management and delivery
• Flexibility to respond and react to changing priorities quickly and efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, team player mentality, collaborative in nature, attention to detail, and proven ability to manage priorities.
• Client-facing communication
• Python script execution is a plus
• Availability to work during Pacific Time when required is a plus

ABOUT TELUS International AI:

Creating and enhancing the world's data to enable better AI via human intelligence.

We help companies test and improve machine learning models via our global AI Community of 1 million+ annotators and linguists. Our proprietary AI training platform handles all data types (text, images, audio, video and geo) across 500+ languages and dialects. Our AI Data Solutions vastly enhance AI systems across a range of applications from advanced smart products, to better search results, to expanded speech recognition, to more human-like bot interactions and so much more.

Additional Job Description

TELUS International is looking for Linguists fluent in Swedish for a remote project.

EEO Statement

At TELUS International, we enable customer experience innovation through spirited teamwork, agile thinking, and a caring culture that puts customers first. TELUS International is the global arm of TELUS Corporation, one of the largest telecommunications service providers in Canada. We deliver contact center and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions to some of the world's largest corporations in the consumer electronics, finance, telecommunications and utilities sectors. With global call center delivery capabilities, our multi-shore, multi-language programs offer safe, secure infrastructure, value-based pricing, skills-based resources and exceptional customer service - all backed by TELUS, our multi-billion dollar telecommunications parent.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At TELUS International, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.