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Posted by Arnold Garlick (Member # 3146) on May 30, 2006, 01:35 PM:
Computational Linguist, Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Location: Boston area (Position AXG-1005)
The Computational Linguist will work with the company�s technical team to develop and integrate linguistic resources and applications for the company�s TTS engine.
Areas of Competence:
* Computational Linguistics
* Semantics
* Linguistics
* Speech corpus
* Text corpus
Primary Duties:
* Produce and maintain speech corpus, audio data, transcripts and phonetic dictionary, data annotation, and component/model configuration management
* Verify existing corpus
* Developing utilities, lexicons, and other language resources for company�s unique TTS
* Adapt text language parsing and analysis software for new TTS needs
Required skills/experience:
* Thorough grounding in phonology, phonetics, lexicography, orthography, semantics, morphology, syntax, and other branches of linguistics
* Experience with language parsing and analysis software, such as part-of-speech (POS) and syntactic taggers, semantics, and discourse analysis
* Experience with formant or concatenated based speech synthesis
* Experience working on medium-scale, multi-developer software projects
* Experience with development of speech corpus, transcripts, data annotation, and phonetic dictionary
* Programming experience in C/C++/Matlab/Perl
* Self-motivation and ability to work independently
* Familiarity with concepts and techniques from DSP theory, machine learning and statistical modeling is a plus
Must have a Master/PhD. in Engineering, Computer Science or Linguistics with development or research experience in speech synthesis/recognition/technology.
Please refer to Position AXG-1005
Direct your confidential response to:
Arnold L. Garlick III
President
Pacific Search Consultants
(949) 366-9000 Ext. 2#
[email protected]
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