Speech Data Collection Contributor (Arabic-United Arab EmiratesExternal_Recruitment) at CrowdGen by Appen (United Arab Emirates)

CrowdGen by Appen· United Arab Emirates·1d ago

Role details

Work type

Remote

Employment

Contract

Job description

We need native Arabic-United Arab Emirates (Gulf) speakers for a speech recording project. Your recordings help train AI speech recognition systems.

The work is straightforward. Read and record 500 short Arabic sentences using the Appen Mobile app. One session takes 1–2 hours.

You're paid when you finish, provided at least 90% of your recordings pass our quality review.

Requirements:

Native Arabic (Gulf) speaker in United Arab Emirates. Please make sure that GULF ARABIC language is listed in your Language Skills list before applying to the project
Age 18 or older
Smartphone compatible with the Appen Mobile app
Ability to follow recording guidelines

Demographic quotas apply. Task slots depend on region capacity. We'll contact you if slots open later.

If selected, you'll get an email from CrowdGen to set up your account and begin the project.

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Flexibility: Choose projects and set your own pace – suitable for freelancers, students, or professionals seeking supplementary income alongside a career crowdgen.com.
Compensation: Competitive pay rates, clearly stated before work begins. Rates can reach $100+/hr for high-demand skills (location-dependent) app.crowdgen.com. Payment via bank transfer, PayPal, Payoneer, Airtm, and more.
Impact: Contributors can see which models their work has shaped – visible, purposeful impact crowdgen.com.
Community: A “community of peers” – forums, feedback channels, and support within two business days crowdgen.com.
Remote/hybrid policy: Fully remote – all work is done online from anywhere.
Engineering/contributor culture: Emphasis on domain expertise, quality score, and professional profile-building. No lengthy applications – quick sign-up and get matched to tasks that fit your expertise.

One-liner: CrowdGen is the contributor platform of Appen, connecting a global network of domain experts and language specialists to provide human-annotated data that trains frontier AI models.
Entity Type: Public (Appen Limited, listed on Australian Securities Exchange under ticker APX)
Headquarters: Appen headquarters in Sydney, Australia; CrowdGen operates as a global remote platform.
Founded: 1996 (Appen); CrowdGen launched as the contributor-facing brand.
Founders: Dr. Julie Vonwiller and Dr. Richard Keir (Appen)

Primary industry/industries: AI training data, data annotation, machine learning services
Target customers: B2B – primarily large technology companies and AI research labs building large language models (LLMs) and other AI systems. 80% of the world’s leading LLM builders are Appen customers appen.com.
Mission or purpose statement: “Human data to improve AI” – providing expert-validated data that trains frontier models, ensuring AI understands nuance, context, and complexity appen.com.

CrowdGen Contributor Platform: A remote work marketplace where skilled contributors (domain experts, linguists, annotators) apply their expertise to AI data tasks – including CoT reasoning, RLHF, SFT, speech & audio annotation, multimodal data generation, LiDAR annotation, and model integrity auditing crowdgen.com. Work is project-based, flexible, and paid per task or per hour.
Appen Data Products (for enterprises): Six specialised data capabilities: Reasoning & RLHF, Agentic AI, Speech & Audio, Multimodal AI, Physical AI (sensor fusion/robot trajectories), and Model Integrity (hallucination benchmarking, bias detection) appen.com.

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly available in provided search results. Appen Limited (ASX: APX) – market cap fluctuates; latest financial filings available via ASX.
Key Metric: Annual Revenue (Appen) – Not publicly available in provided materials; see Appen’s ASX filings for up-to-date figures.
Notable Investors/Partners: The company is publicly traded. Key clients include “80% of the world’s leading LLM builders” appen.com.
Growth Signals:
- 350,000 distinct people paid through the platform app.crowdgen.com
- 1M+ remote members across 200 countries and 500+ languages crowdgen.com
- 30+ years in operation, present at every major AI inflection point appen.com
- “$100+/hr” pay rates possible depending on location and skills app.crowdgen.com

Deep domain expertise: Contributors are matched to projects aligned with their professional background (e.g., linguists on language projects, medical experts on health AI). This ensures high-quality, niche data.
Global scale and diversity: 500+ languages, 200 countries – allows for culturally and linguistically diverse training data, crucial for global AI.
Proven trust and history: 30 years of AI data work, used by the largest AI labs. The platform has a strong reputation and established relationships with frontier model builders.
Transparent pay and ethics: Pay rates shown upfront before starting a task; commitment to above-minimum-wage in all markets; no lock-in with competitors; clear policies on harmful content and feedback crowdgen.com/docs.

Current priorities: Expanding the CrowdGen platform to attract more specialised professionals (not just general annotators) – targeting domain experts, engineers, scientists, and creative professionals. The focus is on “domain-matched, always” and “a record you own” – building contributor profiles that persist across projects.
Direction for growth: Deepening capabilities for frontier AI data needs – CoT reasoning, agentic AI, multimodal, and physical AI. Continuing to lead the shift from basic annotation to high-judgment, expert-driven data work.

Sources

crowdgen.com
appen.com
app.crowdgen.com
crowdgen.com/docs
jobs.lever.co/appen (Appen careers – not directly CrowdGen contributors but related)