Riccardo A.
Voice AI Trainer & Audio Transcriber
Experience
Aug 2025 - Present
4 monthsVoice AI Trainer & Audio Transcriber
LingoTribe
- Engage in authentic, unscripted voice conversations in Italian using professional-quality recording equipment, ensuring clear and natural audio samples for AI training.
- Collaborate with a language-specific community group to share feedback and improve recording practices while adhering to project guidelines for quality and consistency.
- Contribute to inclusive AI development by discussing everyday topics, culture, and life experiences in natural speech.
- Transcribe Italian audio recordings with accuracy and consistency, following formatting standards and maintaining fidelity to the spoken word.
Aug 2025 - Sep 2025
2 monthsChain-of-Thought Data Curator
micro1
- Develop and curate gold-standard Chain-of-Thought (CoT) datasets to enhance multi-step reasoning in LLMs.
- Design scalable rubrics and evaluation criteria to assess logical flow, correctness, and clarity of reasoning chains.
- Write and review high-quality CoT responses that demonstrate structured and precise reasoning.
- Identify and document common model failure modes (e.g., hallucination, shortcut reasoning, unsupported leaps).
- Collaborate with AI trainers and evaluators to refine benchmarks, annotation protocols, and reasoning evaluation frameworks.
Jul 2025 - Present
5 monthsTranscription Specialist
One Forma
- Review and correct Italian audio transcripts, focusing on pre-Inverse Text Normalization (pre-ITN) accuracy to enhance automatic transcription models.
- Identify and correct transcription errors, ensuring alignment between spoken content and textual output.
- Contribute to improving the linguistic precision of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) systems through detailed linguistic and phonetic analysis.
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
3 monthsSearch Relevance Rater
Innodata
- Evaluate the relevance of search results to improve AI-powered ranking and recommendation systems.
- Analyze user queries with a focus on linguistic, semantic, and cultural accuracy to ensure a high-quality user experience.
- Conduct thorough research and apply critical judgment to support the optimization of search algorithms and language models.
Mar 2025 - Present
9 monthsAI Data Trainer
Alignerr
- Contribute to multiple generative AI projects focused on prompt writing and evaluating chatbot responses based on linguistic quality, relevance, factual accuracy, and safety.
- Work on advanced video annotation tasks involving comparative evaluation of AI-generated video outputs in response to specific prompts.
- Apply critical thinking and domain awareness to ensure high-quality data for model fine-tuning and alignment.
Nov 2024 - Jun 2025
8 monthsAI Data Trainer
Appen
- Contribute to the development and fine-tuning of a multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) through domain-specific data collection, annotation, and evaluation.
- Ensure contextual accuracy and linguistic integrity across diverse language domains.
- Perform data preprocessing, quality assurance, and assist in evaluating model outputs for scalability in real-world applications.
- Evaluate English-to-Italian translations of prompts and responses containing sensitive content, assessing grammatical correctness, fluency, and translation accuracy to ensure high-quality LLM outputs.
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
3 monthsAI Data Trainer
One Forma
- Evaluate AI-generated responses from a virtual shopping assistant, focusing on seven key components (e.g., response text, ASIN cards, navigation pills) to ensure relevance, contextuality, and usefulness for customer queries.
- Assess multi-turn conversations, product detail references, and customer intent alignment across various shopping scenarios within the Amazon app environment.
- Apply structured evaluation criteria and loops for component-level review, contributing to model improvement through high-quality feedback and annotation consistency.
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
2 monthsAI Data Trainer
Super Annotate
- Generate high-quality prompts and responses to train and evaluate generative AI models.
- Ensure clarity, relevance, and naturalness in outputs, following detailed linguistic and contextual guidelines.
- Contribute to the refinement of model behavior across diverse use cases by writing diverse and localized content in Italian.
May 2024 - Present
1 year 7 monthsAds Quality Rater
Welocalize
- Analyze and rate online advertisements, landing pages, and keyword-query matches to ensure quality, clarity, and relevance for Italian-language users.
- Review and flag sensitive, inappropriate, or misleading content across various digital platforms, including video-based search engines like YouTube.
- Apply strict evaluation criteria to optimize user ad experience and support improvements in ad targeting and compliance.
Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 8 monthsAI Data Trainer & Reviewer
Scale AI
- Collaborate on multiple AI training projects using RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) and SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) methodologies.
- Write high-quality prompts and responses to improve chatbot performance across diverse scenarios and domains.
- Evaluate model outputs based on dimensions such as instruction following, truthfulness, fluency, safety, and language quality.
- Participate in audio-related tasks, including high-quality audio recordings, scripted conversations, and transcription in both Italian and English.
- Serve as a reviewer, ensuring quality and consistency in task submissions by evaluating and providing feedback on other contributors’ work.
- Selected as an Oracle member, a trusted group of top contributors recognized for consistently delivering outstanding quality and reliability.
- Translate and revise English-to-Italian prompts and responses containing sensitive content, improving grammatical accuracy, fluency, and naturalness for LLM training purposes.
- Design detailed evaluation rubrics to define the characteristics of high-quality responses, ensuring criteria are specific, self-contained, and atomic.
Nov 2022 - Present
3 years 1 monthAds Quality Rater
Telus Digital
- Evaluate the relevance and accuracy of online ads, landing pages, and associated content based on user queries or keyword intent.
- Assess the quality of search terms, keyword-query matches, and the presence of misleading or sensitive content, including YouTube-specific evaluations.
- Ensure alignment with up-to-date advertising and content guidelines, contributing to safer and more useful ad experiences for Italian-speaking users.
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
5 monthsRome, Italy
Sales Agent
Optima Italia
- Promote and up-sell products and services to meet customer needs.
- Showcase product features and discuss technical details to overcome objections and close sales.
- Uphold high standards of customer service by promoting and upselling new products and services.
- Use a consultative sales approach to understand customer needs and recommend relevant offerings.
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
1 year 3 monthsItaly
Digital Marketing Consultant
Marketing Italia
- Provide weekly updates on digital marketing campaigns to clients, discussing strategic initiatives and methods for improvement.
- Analyze competitor pages to locate backlink and keyword opportunities.
- Proactively engage with clients by phone, email, and in person, establishing long-term, lucrative relationships.
- Spearhead client meetings to determine project needs and identify the correct course of action to enhance client success.
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
1 year 9 monthsItaly
Digital Marketing Consultant
Digital & Viral
- Use a consultative sales approach to understand customer needs and recommend relevant offerings.
- Respond to telephone and in-person requests for information.
- Follow up with existing customers to provide additional support and address concerns.
- Provide sales and customer service assistance to walk-in traffic.
- Increase website traffic by implementing effective search engine optimization strategies.
Feb 2010 - Mar 2015
5 years 2 monthsItaly
Sports Journalist
Ilmionapoli.it
- Deliver authoritative sports coverage with careful attention to game facts, statistics, and predictions.
- Manage online sports columns, blogs, and video pieces.
- Help the social media team improve promotions and engagement by providing top-notch sports content targeted at specific audiences.
- Edit more than ten pieces per week, carefully checking content wording and facts.
- Revitalize community sports coverage by increasing assignments and revamping quality standards.
Summary
Experienced AI Data Trainer and Language Specialist with a strong background in prompt and response writing, chatbot evaluation, and multimodal data annotation. Skilled in assessing model outputs across dimensions such as instruction-following, truthfulness, tone, clarity, and safety, using methodologies like RLHF and SFT. Proven track record across multiple platforms, including audio transcription, video evaluation, and language-specific projects in Italian and English. Experienced in translating and reviewing English-to-Italian prompts and responses, including sensitive content, to ensure grammatical accuracy, fluency, and semantic fidelity. Adept at improving linguistic quality in alignment with project guidelines and cultural nuances. Passionate about contributing to the development of robust, ethical, and high-quality AI systems.
Languages
Italian
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2008 - Jun 2012
Università Suor Orsola Benincasa
Communication Studies · Italy
Oct 2003 - Jun 2008
Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei
Scientific High School · Italy
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