Hydrus - Voice Contributor - French (Quebec)

Description

About the Project

• We're looking for native-level French (Quebec) speakers with professional voice recording experience to join the Hydrus Project.
• The project consists of two scheduled recording sessions from their own home studio.
• Because the recordings go straight into production, the audition validates two things equally: your voice *and* your recording environment.

What You'll Do

• Audition with two 30 second samples using your home studio set up
• Once approved, you will complete two scheduled recording sessions of approximately 4 hours each
• Participate in natural conversation, prompted discussion, and scripted customer-service scenarios
• Record from your own home studio setup across both sessions

Your Recording Environment

Three things are required, and each is judged separately

1. An external microphone: A separate, dedicated microphone is absolutely required — see below.
2. A dry room: Your voice should sound close and clear, with no echo or hollow, distant quality. Untreated rooms with bare walls, hard floors, and high ceilings usually fail.
3. A quiet room: No HVAC hum, fans, traffic, appliances, or household noise during recording.

Minimum Required Gear

• Dynamic Mics (best for untreated rooms): Shure SM58, Shure MV7 / MV7+, RODE PodMic / PodMic USB, or similar.
• Condenser mic (great in a treated room): RODE NT-USB Mini, Blue Yeti / Yeti Orb, Blue Bluebird, Blue Baby Bottle, or similar.
• Room Treatment: Your recording space should produce studio-quality sound samples – isolation shields, sounds absorbing pads, etc…

Immediately rejected: built-in laptop microphones, phone mics, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headphone-attached mics, headsets, and gaming headsets.

Technical Specification

You must be able to produce audio samples in the meeting the following specifications

WAV format, 24-bit, 48 kHz, no compression. Free software such as Audacity can produce this. If you cannot export in this format, please do not apply — this level of technicality is required for this role.

Who We're Looking For

• Native-level French (Quebec) speaker
• A natural, authentic, friendly, conversational customer-service speaking style
• A dry, quiet home recording space and a professional microphone, as described above
• Good background, but not required: Podcasters, youtubers, streamers, recording artists, voice-over actors, etc – anyone who has experience recording audio in a high-quality home studio

Commitment & Compensation

• Estimated time: approximately 8 hours total across two scheduled sessions
• Compensation: $55.00 USD per hour