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Kannada Localization Translator
Location
Worldwide
Posted
38 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Kannada Localization Translator
Duolingo
• Localize all marketing and product copies, ensuring they are accurate, charismatic, and reflect Duolingo’s style guide and requirements • Attend meetings/consult with fellow team members to discuss translations and align on style, tone, and vocabulary • Contribute to the development of in-house style guides for Kannada • Conduct QA on the live app to ensure that original content is not only correct and understandable for the Kannada audience, but also engaging and compelling
Job Requirements
- Native fluency in Kannada and full professional fluency in English
- 3+ years of experience in translating, transcreation, proofreading, and/or copywriting for a Kannada audience
- Experience localizing online, mobile, and/or game products
- Ability to evaluate TTS audio in native language with a skilled ear to report on quality, including details such as nuances in accents
- Desire to learn how to edit and triage TTS in native language for output across in-app and marketing content
- Experience reviewing, annotating, and refining Large Language Model (LLM) outputs for linguistic accuracy, tone, cultural nuance, and factual correctness is strongly preferred
- A portfolio of past work to demonstrate your expertise
- Strong interest in Duolingo and our mission
- Ability to work 25-30 hrs/week (workload may vary from week to week)
Benefits
- Limitless learning opportunities
- Daily collaborations with world-class minds
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