Here are some remote jobs you can do where you'll be paid to either read text aloud or repeat what you hear:
RWS
At RWS, you can get paid to help train AI models with their Data Annotator jobs.
With these gigs, you can get paid around $20/hour with no experience or education requirements.
You get paid for tasks like:
- Data annotation or evaluating of text or audio/speech samples
- Briefly describing audio/speech sample contents or rewriting the generated captions
- Assigning applicable categories
- Speech and/or video recording
Telus International
At Telus International, you can get paid around $19/hour for their audio data collection projects.
With these gigs, you can get paid to “record utterances displayed on a tool in their own voice using their Android mobile phone or a handheld Android tablet device.”
These gigs take around 1-1.5 hours to complete.
Datavio
At Datavio, you can find a lot of remote speech and audio data jobs that pay you more than $1 per minute of your time.
You will contribute to projects that gather and measure audio data which help make virtual assistants and AI programs more user-friendly.
They have these available for many different countries.
3Play Media
At 3Play Media, you can get paid to be a Voice Writer who just listens to presenters in live streams and eats what they say into a automated caption software.
This helps create captions for people to follow along with on live streams.
These gigs can pay up to $26/hour, according to Glassdoor reviews.
Voices.com
At Voices.com, you can get paid to be a voice artist who could do voice work for audiobooks, ads, podcasts, and more.
According to Glassdoor reviews, you could earn up to $57/hour in some cases, depending on the type of work you do here.
You just get the right audio recording equipment, create a profile with some samples, and start trying out for gigs.
ACX
ACX is kind of similar to Voices.com in that you can get paid to read scripts as a voice artist.
The difference is that at ACX, you get paid to specifically narrate audiobooks.
They don't have as many job options as Voices.com.
That being said, all it takes is one relationship with a successful author to make this a lucrative gig.
As a voice artist, you could potentially get paid very well with similar rates to Voices.com.
You can also choose to be paid in a lump sum by the project, by royalties of book sales, or a combination.