Linguist II

SGS_JOB_2596

Engineering
Remote
Linguistics
NLP
Python
SQL

Contract - 06 Months

The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements. Need a native speaker of Kannada. Currently targeting Full Remote anywhere in USA. Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects: Launching these languages on the wearable devices. Needing native speaker skills to ensure the voices sound accurate and appropriate. Typical Day in the Role: • Heads down work including tasks like updating • Pronunciation lexica • Writing test normalization rules • Fixing synthesis bugs • Reviewing results of external evaluations How will performance be measured: • Having ability to make contributions that lead to improvement of the product • Meeting timelines - nature of the tasks needed will change • Starting out with broader strokes of setting up the ability to have a voice and then the details will be the next focus • Ability to complete multiple types of tasks at once

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,
  • Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
  • Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related.
  • Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills:

  • Native speaker of Kannada.
  • 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.
  • Native speaker of Kannada.
  • Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
  • Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
  • Experience with programing language like Python.
  • Having worked with large amounts of language data.
  • Deep dive analysis of data would be nice.

Education/Experience:

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

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