American Language Speech Recognition Lexicographer (Native Speake r)

[Brandstetter, Michael]

American Language Speech Recognition Lexicographer (Native Speaker)

Volt Computer Services seeks qualified candidates for a position at the
World's Largest Software Company in Redmond, WA.

The chosen candidate will review and test American English Speech
Recognition lexicons in a database or in files.  Seeks speech recognition
information as needed to perform lexicon review tasks effectively.  May be
called on to assist in accuracy testing, language phrase corpus gathering
and data maintenance tasks.  Works under supervision of more senior Testers.

Responsibilities include assuring the consistency, quality and coverage of
the pronunciation lexicon for American English Speech Recognition products
to insure the highest level of performance of speech recognition accuracy.
Includes verification of current word pronunciation and addition of new
pronunciations as needed. Test responsibilities include development of test
procedures to assess the overall quality of lexicons and the quality of
automatic pronunciation generation using letter to sound rules and
morphology. Native speaker of American English is assumed. MA or Ph.D. in
linguistics and focus on phonetics are preferred. Experience with test
methodology is a plus.

Please apply to Michelle Lovitt vial e-mail at mlovitt at voltservgp.com.