20.2077, Jobs: Hungarian & Uralic & Computational Ling, General Ling: Scientist

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Subject: 20.2077, Jobs: Hungarian & Uralic & Computational Ling, General Ling: Scientist

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Date: 04-Jun-2009
From:  SOVX AG < hr at svox.com >
Subject: Hungarian & Uralic & Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax: Scientist, SVOX AG, Zürich, Switzerland
 

	
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:07:56
From:  SOVX AG [hr at svox.com]
Subject: Hungarian & Uralic & Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax: Scientist, SVOX AG, Zürich, Switzerland

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University or Organization: SVOX AG 
Job Location: Zürich, Switzerland 
Web Address: http://www.svox.com/

Job Rank: Scientist  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Syntax 

Required Language(s): Hungarian (hun)
                      Uralic 

Description:

Computer Linguist Hungarian
Ref. No. ZU-2009-21

Company Profile:
SVOX, a leading supplier of embedded speech solutions, has a reputation for
quality and customer focus. SVOX drives adoption of speech user interfaces
in automotive and mobile device industries. The company offers Speech
Recognition (ASR), Speech Output (TTS) as well as complete Speech Dialog
solutions. SVOX focus on quality and the use of flexible software
architectures allows for optimized embedded speech solutions that can be
easily tailored to customers' technical requirements and market needs. For
more information, please visit: www.svox.com.
We are seeking to temporarily (10 months) add to our language development
team a computational linguist for Hungarian who 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 Hungarian. 

Tasks / Responsibilities:
- 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 phonological rules
- 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 / Competencies:
- Native speaker of Hungarian
- 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
- 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 10 months

Start date:
At earliest availability

Please see job contact information below.


Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2009 
	  
Email Address for Applications: kobari at svox.com 
Contact Information
	SOVX AG 
	Email: hr at svox.com 
	Phone: +41 43 544 06 00 



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