24.1122, Jobs: Comp Ling: Senior Research Scientist (9286), Nuance Communications

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Subject: 24.1122, Jobs: Comp Ling: Senior Research Scientist (9286), Nuance Communications

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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:12:34
From:  EMEA Jobs [emeajobs at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist (9286), Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany or Burlington, USA or Montreal, Canada

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University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany 
Job Rank: Senior Research Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Company Profile:
At Nuance Communications, everything we do is focused on developing the most
human, natural, intuitive ways to use your voice to take command of
information. Our people and our technology have pioneered the highest
functioning speech software in the world, ceaselessly perfecting the ability
for machines to recognize and emulate the human voice. We design and deliver
technologies that intuitively link man, machine and the global storehouse of
knowledge to help companies and consumers work seamlessly and intelligently
with the world.

Job Reference:  9286
Job Title: Senior Research Scientist
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Candidates could be based in Germany- Aachen /  USA – Burlington
/  Canada – Montreal
 
Role Responsibilities:
-  Drive and coordinate r&d activities, topics compise
-  Robustness of ASR in distant-talk scenarios
-  Distributed ASR on client and on server
-  End-to-end assessment and tuning of distributed spoken dialogue systems
-  Robustness of ASR to certain user groups (kids, accents, …)
-  Coordination with engineering teams for getting research innovations into
products and deployments
-  Roll-out of distant.talk ASR configurations across languages
-  Across team coordination of larger scale R&D initiatives
-  Analysis of research innovations within and outside the company
-  Formulation of inventions towards patent applications

Required Skills:
-  Experience with Linux, Windows, and scripting languages (perl, python,
shell, cmd, ...)
-  Familiarity with programming languages (java, C/C++, ...)
-  Research experience in digital signal processing and/or automatic speech
recognition
-  Excellent communication skills

Preferred Skills:
-  Management experience (Project or People, ideally both)
-  Familiarity with large compute clusters and parallization
-  Fair knowledge of client/server architectures, TCP/IP, HTTP, XML
-  Broad knowledge of digital signal processing and automatic speech
recognition

Education:
-  M.S/M.E in Computer Science or Engineer or equivalent required. Ph.D.
preferred.



Application Deadline: 06-May-2013 
	  
Email Address for Applications: emeajobs at nuance.com 
Contact Information
	EMEA Jobs 
	Email: emeajobs at nuance.com 





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