Tamil Linguist

PROLIM Global Corporation ( is currently seeking Tamil Linguist II with 100% Remote for one of our Top clients.

Title: Tamil Linguist II

Location: 100% Remote
Contract: 6+ Months

Summary:
The main function of a TTS Linguist CW 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.

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:           

·         Native-level fluency in Tamil

·         Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems

·         Phonetics/phonology, including experience with transcription in IPA or SAMPA -OR- experience with regexes

Good to have skills:   

·         Python

·         Data analysis

Core responsibilities of TTS:

·         Build and improve TTS models (speech generation) to sound more natural, expressive, and robust, including things like prosody and non-verbal cues (e.g., laughter/breath)

·         Multilingual + i18n support: expand language coverage and handle tricky cases like code-switching, accents, and language ID

·         Deploy/integrate models into products (sometimes including on-device inference constraints for wearables)

·         Evaluation + quality measurement: develop pipelines/guidelines to measure naturalness and expressivity

·         Native speaker expertise for new TTS locales

Apply online for immediate consideration, please send your updated resume, and contact info via email

About PROLIM Corporation

PROLIM is a leading provider of end-to-end IT, PLM and Engineering Services and Solutions for Global 1000 companies. They understand business as much as technology, and help their customers improve their profitability and efficiency by providing high value technology consulting, staffing, and project management outsourcing services.

Their IT and PLM consulting offerings include; Advisory, PLM Software/Services, Program Management, Solution Architecture Training/Staffing, Cloud Solutions, Servers/Networking, Infrastructure, ERP Practices and QA Services. Engineering services include Data Translation, CAD/CAM/CAE, Process & Product Engineering, Prototyping, and Testing/Validation within a wide range of markets and industries.