Multilingual Data Annotation Services

Most vendors and buyers use the two terms for the same service. When a distinction is made, labeling means assigning a tag or class to an item, and annotation means adding richer layers, such as time stamps, speaker turns, and sound events. Tomedes quotes the work by task type, so the wording does not change the scope.

Data annotation is commonly grouped by media type: text, image, video, and audio. Tomedes works on the language-led types, which are audio and speech annotation and text annotation. Image and video labeling for computer vision are not part of the service.

In speech data, an example is a verbatim transcript of a recording, with tags for hesitations, unintelligible words, and background noise. In text data, an example is a label that marks a message as a complaint, or a tag that names a person or place. Both teach a model what the data means.

Audio data annotation adds text and labels to recordings. Typical outputs are a verbatim transcript, speaker turns, non-speech sounds such as laughter or coughing, and written forms of spoken numbers and dates, known as inverse text normalization (ITN). The result trains and tests speech recognition and voice assistant models.

Tomedes is not a gig platform. It provides managed annotation to businesses, using native-speaker linguists. Linguists can register on the Tomedes translator registration page and are matched to projects by language and skill. Work depends on current demand in each language.

Pricing depends on the language, the task type, and the audio minutes or items in each batch. Tomedes quotes recording, recording QA, transcription and annotation, and annotation QA as separate lines, so each stage has its own rate. Send a sample task and the guidelines through the quote form to receive an estimate.

Tomedes works in 270+ languages, including hard-to-find ones such as Tagalog, Amharic, and Yoruba. Each task is matched to a native speaker of the exact locale, for example Tagalog as spoken in the Philippines. Native-speaker availability is confirmed before a project starts.

Yes. Annotators in every language need the same rules, so Tomedes translates and adapts annotation guidelines, labeling keys, and examples for each target language. This keeps labels consistent across language teams. Share the documents through the quote form to start.