Job Details

Text To Speech Native Linguist II

Onsite in Burlingame, CA

Responsibilities:

• 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.

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.

Pay range is $43 - $48 per hour with full benefits available, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, parental leave, and more. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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