19.79, Jobs: Arabic & Comp Linguistics: Computer Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG

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Subject: 19.79, Jobs: Arabic & Comp Linguistics: Computer Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG

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Date: 09-Jan-2008
From: Barbara Steiner < steiner at svox.com >
Subject: Arabic, Standard & Computational Linguistics: Computer Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG, Zurich, Switzerland

 

	
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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:39:44
From: Barbara Steiner [steiner at svox.com]
Subject: Arabic, Standard & Computational Linguistics: Computer Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG, Zurich, Switzerland
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University or Organization: SVOX AG 
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Web Address: http://www.svox.com

Job Rank: Computer Linguist Arabic  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

Position: Computer Linguist Arabic (Egyptian)

SVOX AG is a dynamic technology company specialized in text-to-speech. We
are seeking to temporarily (12 months) add to our language development team
a computational linguist for Arabic. You will create new language
components for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.

We invite applications from language specialists that natively speak
Egyptian Arabic. SVOX provides a varied position in an international,
fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Tasks:
-  Development of language-specific components needed to analyse texts
(grammars, rule sets, lexicon evaluation and script-based adaptation)
-  Quality assessment and improvement of phonetic transcriptions
-  Definition of accentuation and phrasing rules
-  Definition of grapheme-to-phoneme rules
-  Preparation of text material for recordings
-  Supervising the recordings
-  Annotating the recordings and creating a speech database
-  Testing and quality assessment of the integrated system

Qualifications and Required Skills
-  Native speaker of Egyptian Arabic
-  Masters degree in linguistics, computer science, or related field
-  1+ years experience in text-to-speech technology is a strong plus
-  Interest in speech synthesis, prosody, and morpho-syntactic analysis of text
-  Programming and scripting skills are desirable

Personal Requirements:
-  Working knowledge of English
-  Excellent organization and communication skills
-  Has a positive attitude and enjoys working in a team
-  High quality standards
-  Willingness to relocate to Zurich, Switzerland, for 12 months

Start Date: At earliest availability.

Contact: Please send your application to Ms. Barbara Steiner.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: hr at svox.com 
Contact Information:
	Barbara Steiner 
	Email: steiner at svox.com 




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