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I’m an Italian Language Specialist with native-level Italian and excellent command of English (C1). I provide a wide range of linguistic services, including translation, localization, transcription, editing, and linguistic quality assurance. Over the years, I’ve also specialized in data annotation for AI and machine learning projects, working across text, audio, and image formats.…

Elisa Festi

Data Annotator, Audio Transcriber, AI Prompt Engineer, +5

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I’m an Italian Language Specialist with native-level Italian and excellent command of English (C1). I provide a wide range of linguistic services, including translation, localization, transcription, editing, and linguistic quality assurance. Over the years, I’ve also specialized in data annotation for AI and machine learning projects, working across text, audio, and image formats.…

Available to hire

I’m an Italian Language Specialist with native-level Italian and excellent command of English (C1). I provide a wide range of linguistic services, including translation, localization, transcription, editing, and linguistic quality assurance. Over the years, I’ve also specialized in data annotation for AI and machine learning projects, working across text, audio, and image formats.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

Italian

Fluent

English

Fluent

German

Intermediate

Work Experience

Data Annotator at Freelance

October 1, 2022 - Present

- Perform sentiment analysis, ASR, NER, image classification, bounding boxes, polygon annotations, and side-by-side translation evaluation. - Annotate financial and legal documents using OCR tools. - RLHF - SFT - Adversarial prompt evaluation (bias, safety, hallucination detection) - Prompt creation and labeling (instruction tuning, creative writing)

Global Operations Consultant at Premise

April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025

- App Testing - Act as primary contact for contributors in Italy, handling queries and feedback. - Localize content, interfaces, and features for cultural and linguistic relevance. - Conduct country-specific research as needed.

Italian Language Specialist at Freelance

October 27, 2022 - Present

- Provide EN>IT localization, translation, MTPE, and transcription. - Create and evaluate prompts, supervise QA labeling, and perform creative writing. - Review and edit LLM-generated word chains according to project guidelines. - Machine Translation Post Editing: Enhancement of machine translations from English to Italian to meet high language standards. - Transcription and Quality Assurance: Transcription of Italian content and supervision of an Italian transcription team as a QA Lead. I also provided ongoing feedback to the Italian transcription team to help improve the overall quality of the work and ensure full compliance with project guidelines. In addition to reviewing and correcting outputs, I proactively suggested adjustments to the guidelines themselves where I identified ambiguities or areas for improvement, contributing to a more efficient and consistent annotation process. - App Localization: Localized an application for the Italian market, adapting the content and interface to meet local language and cultural requirements. - Served as QA Lead for a prompt creation project focused on Italian cultural localization.