Hydrus - Voice Contributor - Spanish (Peru)

About the Project

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

Responsibilities

• Audition with two 30-second samples using your home studio set-up
• 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

Recording Environment Requirements

Three things are required, and each is judged separately:

• An external microphone: A separate, dedicated microphone is absolutely required. Built-in laptop microphones, phone mics, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headphone-attached mics, headsets, and gaming headsets are immediately rejected.
• 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
• 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.
• A quiet room: No HVAC hum, fans, traffic, appliances, or household noise during recording.
• Room Treatment: Your recording space should produce studio-quality sound samples—isolation shields, sound-absorbing pads, etc.

Technical Specifications

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

• WAV format, 24-bit, 48 kHz, no compression
• Free software such as Audacity can produce this format

If you cannot export in this format, please do not apply—this level of technical proficiency is required for this role.

Qualifications

• Native-level Spanish (Peru) 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, or anyone with experience recording audio in a high-quality home studio.

Commitment & Compensation

Estimated time: approximately 8 hours total across two scheduled sessions.

Compensation: $35.00 USD per hour.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications or analyzing resumes. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are made by humans.