Program Associate – Healthcare Speech Data (Hospital Recording), Contract

Location:
Hyderabad (on-site at assigned hospitals)

About the role
We are building real-world speech datasets for healthcare AI: natural conversations between doctors, nurses and other hospital staff and the patients they serve, recorded in outpatient departments, wards and counselling rooms, in the local language with dialect and code-switching intact. This is not app-based crowd recording and not studio work. You will run the recording programme at the assigned hospitals in Hyderabad, from onboarding the hospital staff to delivering clean, consent-verified, transcribed data. What you will do
• Coordinate with the hospital point of contact at each assigned site to plan departments, rooms, timings and recording schedules
• Onboard doctors, nurses and counsellors one-on-one on the recording protocol, consent script and how to pause when personal or sensitive topics come up, and certify them before they record
• Prepare each site around patient flow and clinic hours, and place devices without disrupting care
• Be present for the first recordings at each hospital, and handle patient and staff refusals with care
• Enforce privacy-safe capture: no names, phone numbers or identifying details recorded, sensitive topics handled correctly, and patient consent audio present on every file
• Collect and validate a standard metadata form for every recording (speaker role, demographics, language and dialect, department, setting, device, topic tags), and reject files with missing fields
• Manage the segmentation and transcription teams on the annotation tool,



and recruit transcribers who know medical terminology and Telugu dialects
• Arrange and track review by medical experts where required
• Report weekly on hours recorded, hours passed QC, topic distribution, demographic distribution and hospitals covered What we are looking for
• Based in Hyderabad and comfortable spending most working days inside hospital settings
• Fluent in Telugu and Hindi (Urdu or Dakhni is a plus), because this is close to essential for the work
• Comfortable working with hospital staff and coordinators, and keeping them on schedule
• Calm, respectful and discreet around patients and sensitive conversations, and rigorous about consent paperwork
• 0 to 2 years in programme delivery, healthcare operations, clinical research coordination, surveys or data collection
• Comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets, trackers and annotation or recording tools Good to have
• Experience in hospital operations, clinical trials, public health or health-tech projects
• Experience with speech, transcription or annotation projects
• Familiarity with data privacy and patient consent practices, including India’s data protection rules You will be measured on
• Accepted hours against plan per hospital and department
• 100% of recordings with patient consent audio and complete metadata, and zero personal-information incidents in delivered data
• Segmentation and transcription passing client validation first time
• Topic and demographic distribution within agreed ranges
• Staff retention: recorders still active past the first month at or above the agreed share

📌 Program Associate (Hyderabad)
🏢 Josh Talks
📍 Hyderabad