Voice Actor: CX Agent Voice Cloning (Standard French)

$50–100/hrrate as listed

Record standard, neutral French voice samples that will be used to train and clone a voice for a client's internal customer-experience AI agent. Requires professional voice work experience, a near-professional home recording setup, and explicit consent to voice cloning within this single use case.

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What the work involves

You record scripted French audio — conversational exchanges, narration, instructional copy, and customer-service turns — following a detailed spec covering microphone distance, room treatment, sample rate, file naming, and take structure. Sessions are self-directed: you receive script batches, record in your own space, do a first-pass listen for mouth noise, plosives, and misreads, then upload. Expect requests for multiple takes of the same line with varied emotion, emphasis, or pacing, and expect consistency notes if your timbre or energy drifts between sessions recorded days apart.

The defining constraint is neutrality. The client wants standard, unmarked French — no strong Marseillais, Québécois, Belgian, or Maghrebi coloring, and no audible influence from another first language. Location is irrelevant; the accent is not. Your recordings feed a text-to-speech model and your voice may be cloned for the client's internal CX agent. Mercor states the audio will not be sold, licensed, or reused outside that product. Apply only if you are comfortable with that.

What the screen looks for

A submitted audio sample judged for accent neutrality, diction, and room noise floor before anything else
Verifiable professional history: dubbing studios, radio, podcast series, audiobook titles, IVR or TTS datasets you have voiced
Concrete description of your gear and space — mic model, interface, pop filter, treatment, typical noise floor
Range: can you shift between calm-corporate, warm-conversational, and brisk-energetic on direction
Informed, unambiguous consent to voice cloning for this use case

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous. Roughly 5–10 hours per week across the project run, with turnaround expectations on script batches rather than fixed session times. The listed rate is $50/hr as observed on the platform; actual offers depend on the specific project track and are not guaranteed. Familiarity with Audacity, Audition, or Reaper is preferred — you will occasionally be asked to trim, re-record a flagged line, or export to a different format.

What they look for

Native or native-level French with a standard, neutral accent (no regional or foreign-language coloring)
Professional experience in voice acting, dubbing, narration, podcasting, or broadcast
Professional or near-professional home recording setup (quality mic, treated quiet space, pop filter)
Willingness to consent to voice cloning for the client's internal CX agent
Strong control of intonation, diction, pacing, and emotional range across takes
Working familiarity with audio editing tools (Audacity, Adobe Audition, Reaper)

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Are you a native or native-level French speaker with a standard, neutral French accent—that is, free of strong regional dialect and free of foreign-language phonetic influence?
Native or native-level French speaker, standard/neutral accent · required
Do you have documented professional experience as a voice actor, narrator, audiobook reader, podcaster, broadcaster, or in a related voice profession?
Professional voice experience · required
Do you understand that your voice recordings will be cloned and synthesized into an AI voice model, and are you fully comfortable with this use?
Voice cloning consent · required
Do you have access to a professional or near-professional recording setup, including a quality microphone, a quiet recording environment, and audio monitoring/editing software?
Recording setup: professional-grade equipment · required
Can you commit to and reliably deliver 5–10 hours per week of recording time over the project duration without major conflicts or unpredictable interruptions?
Weekly availability · required
Have you previously recorded voice samples for AI, text-to-speech, audiobooks, IVR systems, or similar machine-learning datasets?
Prior AI or TTS recording experience (preferred) · preferred

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Included with this listing

Interview prep — 12 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether the candidate has genuine professional voice experience (not just 'I have a nice voice') and can demonstrate portfolio-quality work at the standard this role demands.
A strong answer: Name specific, verifiable projects (audiobooks, podcasts, dubbing, broadcast, corporate narration, etc.), how long they've been doing voice work professionally, and ideally mention recordings that showcase neutral delivery and consistency across multiple takes.
Where people lose it: Claiming 'voice acting experience' but naming only YouTube, TikTok, or social media—or vague references to 'some narration work' without concrete examples or timescale that suggest this is genuinely professional-grade.