24.1125, Jobs: Comp Ling: Senior Research Scientist (9298), Nuance Communications

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Subject: 24.1125, Jobs: Comp Ling: Senior Research Scientist (9298), Nuance Communications

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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:14:56
From:  EMEA Jobs [emeajobs at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist (9298), 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:  9298
Job Title: Senior Research Scientist
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location:  Candidates could be based in Germany- Aachen /  USA –
Burlington  /  Canada – Montreal
 
Role Responsibilities:
-  Build acoustic models for Dragon dictation products to meet product
accuracy and speed requirement
-  Evaluate and develop acoustic modeling algorithms to optimize system
performance
-  Formulate hypotheses for various problems, design & conduct experiments,
and reach conclusions
-  Produce training recipes that can work on variety of languages with
different degrees of resources/complexity
-  Improve processes and tools for training & testing various system
components
-  Develop new research algorithms & tools to improve internal research
processes/workflows
-  Produce innovative solutions to challenging problems in ASR that can be
patented, published in scientific literature, and re-used in other Nuance
deployments
-  Collaborate with other team members to conduct research and to collect &
organize deployment data
-  Follow developments in speech recognition to keep our research state of the
art
-  Document system development process and ensure reproducibility of delivered
models
 
Required Skills:
-  Strong analytical, diagnostic and organizational skills
-  Experience in UNIX environment and understanding of languages such as
C/C++, Perl and Python

Preferred Skills:
-  Experience in speech recognition and/or large collaborative research
environment is a plus
-  Experience in acoustic modeling for speech recognition is a plus
-  Interest in languages and/or linguistics is a plus

Education:
-  Ph.D. or Master degree in computer science or electrical engineering or
equivalent



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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