28.4366, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics: Voice Developer, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 28.4366, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics: Voice Developer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:59:35
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics: Voice Developer, Nuance Communications, Belgium/Italy

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Merlebeke, Belgium OR Turin, Italy, Belgium 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: Voice Developer (German TTS) - 12 months contract
Job Rank: Developer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics 

Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

As a Voice Builder you will support our voice builder team in the development
of German TTS voices, mainly supporting on speech data validation.
 
The role can be filled in Merelbeke, Belgium or Turin, Italy.
 
Responsibilities:
- Perform text selection for recordings with female German TTS voice;
proofreading, correction and modification of selected text in German
- Perform phonetic validation of speech data i.e. listen to voice recordings
and check if orthography, phonetic transcriptions and prosodic labels are
correct and match the audio signals.
- Perform segmentation validation i.e. check if phoneme boundaries are well
aligned to the audio signal.
- Perform synthesis evaluation i.e. listen and evaluate synthesis generated
with Female/Male German text-to-speech voices.
- Paticipate in the effort of tuning the TTS voices.
- Testing the product release.

Qualifications:
- 1-2 years work experience, promising graduates are encouraged to apply!
- Native proficiency in German
- Good level of English
- Thorough understanding of phonological and phonetic concepts
- Very good listening skills
- Strong computer skills in a Windows environment and greater than average
comfort with software
- Strong sense of precision and quality in the daily job
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Good problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills 

Preferred Skills:
- Experience with correcting phonetic transcriptions for speech technology 
- Familiarity with development of language assets of text-to-speech
technologies
- Familiarity with machine learning techniques 

Education:
- Candidates need to have studied German at an advanced (university) level (eg
germanists, translater, interpreter)
- MSc degree in phonetics, computational linguistics or other relevant field



Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: lea.mencner at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at nuance.com 


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