18.1177, Jobs: Various Languages & Comp Ling: Researcher, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 18.1177, Jobs: Various Languages & Comp Ling: Researcher, Nuance Communications

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Date: 16-Apr-2007
From: caroline desseaux < carolinedesseaux at nuance.com >
Subject: Various Languages & Computational Linguistics: Researcher, Nuance Communications International, Merelbeke, Belgium

 

	
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:07:52
From: caroline desseaux < carolinedesseaux at nuance.com >
Subject: Various Languages & Computational Linguistics: Researcher, Nuance Communications International, Merelbeke, Belgium 
 

Organization: Nuance Communications International 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com

Job Rank: Researcher  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Egyptian Spoken (arz)
                      Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) 
                      Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat) 
                      Dutch (nld) 
                      English (eng) 
                      Finnish (fin) 
                      Greek (ell) 
                      Hindi (hin) 
                      Hungarian (hun) 
                      Japanese (jpn) 
                      Korean (kor) 
                      Norwegian, Bokmål (nob) 
                      Portuguese (por) 
                      Polish (pol) 
                      Russian (rus) 
                      Swedish (swe) 
                      Turkish (tur) 
                      Chinese, Yue (yue) 

Description:

Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses
and consumers around the world.  Every day, millions of users and thousands of
businesses experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, requesting account
information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their
destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched.
 With more than 2000 employees worldwide, we are committed to make the user
experience more enjoyable by transforming the way people interact with
information and how they create, share and use documents. Making each of those
experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is about.

Temporary Full-time Language Specialist Wanted

Nuance Communications, Inc., a world-wide leader in speech technology, is
seeking full-time  temporary language specialist to develop our newest TTS
technology into various languages.. 

Positions are available for the following languages:
 
- Finnish 
- Dutch (The Netherlands) 
- Australian English 
- Mandarin (Mainland) 
- Mandarin (Taiwan)
- Cantonese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Egyptian Arabic
- Greek
- Hindi
- Iberian Portuguese
- Indian English
- Russian 
- Swedish 
- Turkish 
- Catalan
- Hungarian
- Polish


Responsibilities:
 
- Helping in development of the linguistic processing components
- Design of text corpora for recording and testing
- Processing speech data
- Creating and tuning the TTS voice
- Testing and productization of the TTS voice


Requirements:
- Native or near native speaker of one of them above-mentioned languages
- Speak English fluently (working language)
- Have some experience working in speech/NLP/linguistics either in academia
or in industry
- Have some computational ability - no programming is required, but you should
be comfortable working with MS Windows
- If you know some AWK or Perl, it would be an advantage
- Willing to work in Merelbeke (near Ghent in Belgium) for the duration of the
contract


Offer:

- A 3-5 months contract 
- Training in all aspects of the job, and you will be working with a talented
and committed team
- An exciting job with an innovative and performing international company
- The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic, supportive team
- Competitive remuneration package 
- Relocation, travel and accommodation assistance

To apply, please submit your resume or CV and a brief statement describing your
experience and abilities to caroline.desseaux at nuance.com or
Deanna.roe at nuance.com.  We will consider only electronic submissions. 
We are looking forward to receiving your application! 

The experience speaks for itself (TM)

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)






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