Penn LDC Seeks speakers of Chines dialects

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring part-time speakers of Chines dialects (Min Nan dialect, Shangainese/Wu dialect, Cantonese) to help create speech databases that will be used for language-related research, education and technology development. Task & Payments: - Make phone calls to at least 15 people you know who are also fluent in your language - Calls are toll-free and should last 8 minutes. Calls can be within the US or overseas - Calls are recorded for research purposes. The people you call remain anonymous - You earn $8 per successful call, with the chance to earn extra payment bonuses - You will also listen to short recordings in multiple languages and judge which of them are in your language. You will be compensated based on the number of recordings you judge Job requirements - Native speaker of Taiwanese/ Min Nan, Shanghainese/Wu, or Cantonese dialects - Good command of written and spoken English - Able to make phone calls in your language to 15+ people you know - Able to complete calls within 2 weeks - Eligible to work for University of Pennsylvania **** Please send an email to project staff at for more information. **** Linguistic Data Consortium is a not-for-profit organization within the University of Pennsylvania that supports language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources including data, tools and standards. Since its founding in 1992, LDC has conducted over 45 studies in which we collect examples of linguistic behavior from a large number of participants, while preserving the participants'' anonymity and maximizing the quality, diversity and volume of data available for language-related research. Each study is conducted with oversight from the University of Pennsylvania''s Office of Regulatory Affairs and its Institutional Review Board, whose mission includes the promotion of the rights and welfare of research study participants. The current Multi-La