Expert Audio Transcriber, Norwegian

About Perle

Perle is an AI infrastructure company building expert‑driven training data, evaluation systems, and applied AI products for the world’s leading labs and enterprises. Our partners include xAI, Samsung, ELM, and Unisys. Headquartered in San Francisco with experts across more than forty markets, we specialize in work that requires real human judgment: domain expertise, linguistic nuance, and cultural fidelity that generic data vendors cannot deliver.

We are hiring expert Norwegian transcribers to convert audio recordings of native speakers into precise, conventionally formatted written transcripts. The work powers speech recognition, dialogue, and evaluation systems for major AI labs. Audio ranges from clean studio recordings to natural conversational speech in real‑world acoustic conditions.

You will be working at the level of expert linguistic judgment. This is not data entry. Decisions about orthography, code‑switching, speaker attribution, disfluencies, and non‑speech events shape the quality of every model trained on your output.

Norwegian in its two written standards (Bokmål and Nynorsk) and across its many spoken dialects. Norway has no single spoken standard, and project audio reflects authentic regional speech.

Primary speaker regions:
Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Tromsø, Kristiansand.

• Transcribe audio recordings into accurate, time‑aligned written text following Perle’s project‑specific style guide
• Apply correct conventions for speaker identification, overlapping speech, disfluencies, fillers, false starts, and non‑speech events such as laughter, background noise, and music
• Make principled orthographic decisions for dialectal, colloquial, and code‑switched speech
• Flag ambiguous segments, uncertain speakers, and audio quality issues using project conventions
• Self‑review every submission against Perle’s quality bar before delivery
• Engage with QA reviewers on edge cases, calibration sessions, and style guide updates

• Native fluency in Norwegian with lifelong residence or deep immersion in Norway
• Working knowledge of both Bokmål and Nynorsk orthography
• Ability to identify and transcribe major Norwegian regional dialects
• Comfort with the high degree of accepted dialectal variation in everyday Norwegian speech
• At least two years of professional transcription, captioning, court reporting, broadcast, translation, or linguistic annotation experience
• Demonstrated accuracy at the word level under deadline pressure
• Comfortable with web‑based annotation platforms and variable‑speed audio playback
• Reliable high‑speed internet, quality headphones, and a quiet workspace
• Ability to commit to defined volume per week during active project phases

• Background in Scandinavian linguistics, translation, journalism, or media
• Prior experience annotating Norwegian or Scandinavian speech data
• Working knowledge of Danish or Swedish for cross‑lingual audio
• Familiarity with IPA or other phonetic transcription systems
• Experience with verbatim versus clean‑verbatim transcription conventions

• Paid pilot task before full onboarding so both sides can calibrate
• Per‑task or per‑minute compensation, with rates tied to audio complexity and turnaround
• Flexible scheduling, with volume scaling up and down based on active client projects
• Direct working relationship with Perle’s linguistic leads and QA team
• Eligible for invitation to additional Perle expert projects across related domains

Perle hires experts on the basis of skill, language proficiency, and demonstrated quality. We welcome applicants from every background and every region where our target languages are spoken.