Japanese Transcription Expert

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MercorAI Training Data
United StatesContract
Salary34 USD per hour
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Job Details

Languages
Native Japanese speaker

Requirements

  • Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
  • Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
  • Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
  • Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
  • Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.
  • Experience with AI training data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
  • Skills in transcription and localization, including MTPE, subtitling, and OCR correction.
  • Document production experience such as typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
  • Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.

Responsibilities

  • Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
  • Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
  • Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
  • Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and handwritten content.
  • Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
  • Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.
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