Native African Language Speakers Needed for Cultural Dialogue and Audio Annotation
About the role
Native African Language Speakers Needed for Cultural Dialogue and Audio Annotation We are recruiting native speakers for an academic research project exploring how AI systems understand culturally appropriate conversations across African language communities. We are looking for people with strong writing skills and deep knowledge of their community’s customs, social expectations, and everyday communication. Your contributions will help build a research dataset that reflects local languages and lived cultural experience. We welcome applications for one or more of these language, country pairs: Amharic (Ethiopia), Bambara (Mali), Chichewa (Malawi), Ewe (Togo), Fon (Benin), isiZulu (South Africa), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Kirundi (Burundi), Lingala (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Luganda (Uganda), Sesotho (Lesotho), Setswana (Botswana), Shona (Zimbabwe), Somali (Somalia), Swahili (Kenya), Tigrinya (Eritrea), Twi (Ghana), Wolof (Senegal), and Yoruba (Nigeria). You will work with another annotator from your assigned country to: 1. Create culturally authentic dialogues in your native target language. Develop natural conversations that reflect everyday communication, local customs, and cultural contexts. 2. Develop conversational responses. Write and review response options for different social situations, considering their relevance and cultural appropriateness. 3. Ensure annotation quality. Review content for linguistic accuracy, clarity, consistency, and cultural authenticity. 4. Pay on Upwork: Fixed budget $122.06 (fixed price). Job type: Expert. Posted by a client on Upwork. You need an Upwork account to apply; use the Apply button to open the job.