Case study
Audio data collection across 15 languages.
An AI data buyer needed clean audio in 15 languages fast enough for training pipelines to ingest while recording continued.
15 - 500+ - 150-250 hours
15
Languages
500+
Resources
150-250 hours
Volume per language
Measured outcomes
Compressed audio collection
Project overview
What landed, and what made it hard.
An AI data buyer needed clean audio in 15 languages fast enough for training pipelines to ingest while recording continued.
Delivery snapshot
Compressed audio collection
- Client
- confidential AI data buyer
- Service
- Audio data collection
- Languages
- 15
- Resources
- 500+ contributors
Why this mattered
Outcome before process.
The work required phased delivery, recording discipline, post-production control, and enough contributors to prevent a single-language bottleneck.
The problem to solve
Why the work was difficult, and what MoniSa changed in-flight.
Each language needed enough clean audio to be useful for training, but the deadline left little room for linear collection.
The challenge
The problem to solve
The risk was that recording would finish, then post-production and QA would become the real bottleneck.
Operating response
What MoniSa changed
MoniSa deployed 500+ contributors, built custom scripts per language, and delivered in phases so ingestion could start before all recording ended.
- Contributor scale Resources were split by language and recording target rather than managed as one generic pool.
- Script control Custom scripts kept the recordings aligned to model-training needs.
- Phased handoff Delivery moved in phases so the buyer could begin ingestion while collection continued.
Results
Measured outcomes from this engagement.
The engagement delivered the planned audio volume across 15 languages within a 15-20 day production window.
| Languages | 15 |
|---|---|
| Resources | 500+ |
| Volume per language | 150-250 hours |
| Timeline | 15-20 days |
Selection logic
What protected the result.
The selection came down to whether MoniSa could source and review the work at standard, and whether that would hold across the full run.
Why the fit was real
Why the fit was real
The engagement needed contributor scale, post-production discipline, and phased delivery working together.
What decided the result
What decided the result
The buyer did not have to wait for the entire collection cycle before starting data ingestion.
What buyers can reuse
What buyers can reuse
- Compressed audio collection succeeds when recording, post-production, and QA are planned as one flow.
- Phased delivery reduced idle time for the buyer-side training pipeline.
- The timeline and volume are scoped to this engagement only.
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Examples referenced in the engagement.
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- Asian languages
- Phased audio collection
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What was delivered on this engagement?
Languages: 15. Resources: 500+. Volume per language: 150-250 hours
What control kept the work stable?
The buyer did not have to wait for the entire collection cycle before starting data ingestion.
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- 300+ languages and 4,500+ dialects, quoted per locale rather than per language — because the dialect decides whether a dataset is usable, whether a market accepts a release, and which specialist the work goes to.
- Specialist network
- 110,000+ verified language specialists — linguists, annotators, and reviewers — plus voice talent and subtitlers, matched to the language, domain and task before assignment.
- Capacity and mobilisation
- Named availability confirmed per pair before scoping. Coverage is reported as staffed today or needing a recruitment window, in writing, before a launch date or release window is agreed.
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- ISO 9001:2015 quality management, ISO 27001:2022 information security, and ISO 17100 translation services — scoped to translation specifically, and stated that way rather than implied across every line.
- Commercial basis
- Quoted in the unit the work is measured in — per word, per audio hour, per approved hour, per finished minute, per batch, per item — with what the unit includes stated alongside it, whether the quote is for you or for a client you quote onward.
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