Linguist

Required Years of Experience: 3-4 years of experience required.

Location: 100% Remote (but should be based in within United States)

Education: Bachelor s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Language requirements:

1. Tamil

2. Marathi

3. Egyptian Arabic & Modern Standard Arabic (+ familiarity with Modern Standard Arabic is nice to have

Candidates need to be Linguists experts, not just native speakers.

Summary:

The main function of a TTS Linguist is to determine speech data needs and make for data-based model and product improvements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills:

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, and ToBI.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

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