28.1222, Jobs: Australian English; Computational Linguistics: Speech Linguistic Project Manger, Adecco

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Subject: 28.1222, Jobs: Australian English; Computational Linguistics: Speech Linguistic Project Manger, Adecco

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:43:05
From: Micaela Bester [mbester at google.com]
Subject: Australian English; Computational Linguistics: Speech Linguistic Project Manger, Adecco, London, UK

 
University or Organization: Adecco UK 
Job Location: London, United Kingdom 
Job Title: Speech Linguistic Project Manager - Australian English
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Australian English


Description:

As a Speech Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of
Australian English, you will oversee and manage all work related to achieving
high data quality for speech projects in your own language.

You will be based in London, managing a team of Speech Data Evaluators and
working on a number of projects towards TTS synthesis.

This includes:
- Training, managing and overseeing the work of your team
- Creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email addresses,
numbers
- Creating annotation conventions
- Evaluating data quality
- Providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics
- Working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using in-house tools

Job requirements:
- Native-level speaker of Australian English
- Must have attended primary school in Australia
- Keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of the
language’s phonology
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in
current speech, mobile, and online technology
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Previous project management and people management experience
- Previous experience with speech/NLP related projects a plus
- Advanced degree in Linguistics preferred; experience with Computational
Linguistics a plus
- Also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming language;
previous experience working in a Linux environment

Project Duration: 3 months (with potential for extension) - from April to mid
July.



Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2017 
	  
Email Address for Applications: mbester at google.com 
Contact Information:
	Micaela Bester 
	Email: mbester at google.com 


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