Linguist - Brazilian Portuguese

  • Hillsborough, CA
  • Posted 46 days ago | Updated 22 days ago

Overview

Remote
On Site
$45 - $55
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Portuguese
Python
SQL
IPA
SAMPA
ToBI
Bash
TTS
Text to Speech
Linguist

Job Details

Linguist Native Brazilian Portuguese Text to Speech (TTS) specific work

Key Projects/Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Text based scripting
  • Front end development
  • Text normalization
  • Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP for the language of expertise.
  • Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Must-Have Skills:

  1. Coding and scripting Command line/ /coding skills (Python, bash, regexes) Phonology transcription
  2. Brazilian and Portuguese Native speaker

Nice-to-have Skills:

  1. Python scripting

Years of Experience: 1 to 2 years

Skills:

  • Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese or demonstrated near-native fluency
  • Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
  • Command line/scripting/coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)
  • Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
  • 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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