29.1322, Jobs: Tamil; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: TTS Language Engineer, Amazon

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1322. Mon Mar 26 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1322, Jobs: Tamil; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: TTS Language Engineer, Amazon

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:45:54
From: Pawel Mazur [pawmazur at amazon.com]
Subject: Tamil; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: TTS Language Engineer, Amazon

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Job Location: Cambridge, UK or Gdansk, Poland 
Job Title: TTS Language Engineer (Tamil)
Job Rank: Language Engineer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; NLP

Required Language(s): Tamil (tam)

Description:

Come join us, we build TTS voices that help developers revolutionize the way
people interact with devices and services!

At Amazon we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, starting
from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and
reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it.

The position is based at the Amazon office in Cambridge, UK or Gdansk, Poland.

As a TTS Language Engineer you will work alongside Software Developers who are
subject matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You are
expected to have solid knowledge of linguistics, in particular knowledge of
phonetics/phonology. You will be working on a variety of tasks to improve
natural language processing of TTS (text-to-speech). You will actively
collaborate with Software Developers with linguistic expertise throughout the
whole language and voice building process at Amazon. 

The tasks include:

- Normalizing textual resources through regular expressions
- Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules
- Labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
- Contribute to the formalization of language models through in depth
knowledge of phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the target language
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines
- Producing / validating phonetic transcriptions
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data

Basic Qualifications:
- Native-level proficiency in Tamil
- Solid knowledge of phonetics/phonology
- Ability to create / fix phonetic transcriptions in the target language
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools
- Knowledge of regular expressions 

Preferred Qualifications: 
- Degree in Linguistics, with specialization in Phonology, Computational
linguistics or similar
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python)
- Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git)
- Solid communication skills
- Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new
technologies related to foreign languages, linguistics, phonetics, phonology
and language technology
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: langton at amazon.com 
Contact Information:
	Remus Mois 
	Email: rmois at amazon.com 


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