10.423, Jobs: Computational Linguistics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-423. Mon Mar 22 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.423, Jobs: Computational Linguistics

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1)
Date:  Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:02:45 EST
From:  Sandypac30 at aol.com
Subject:  Software Engineer in Speech Technology; Silicon Valley, CA

2)
Date:  Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:36:36 EST
From:  Sandypac30 at aol.com
Subject:  Software Engineer in Speech Modeling and Synthesis

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:02:45 EST
From:  Sandypac30 at aol.com
Subject:  Software Engineer in Speech Technology; Silicon Valley, CA


SOFTWARE ENGINEER-SPEECH RECOGNITION
Location:  Silicon Valley, CA

For a complete listing of our current career opportunities, please visit our
Web
Page at http://www.pacific.com

Career opportunity for a proven Software Engineer in speech technology
to focus on dialog and grammar development.  Will design the dialogue
required to build speech recognition systems for telephone services
(e.g., booking airline tickets).

   Will determine exactly what the system should say at each point, and
   what the possible responses may be from the caller.  The critical
   skills required include:

   spoken user interface design

   any kind of computer-human interface background

   linguistics and cognitive science background

   IVR background (designing and building touch tone systems)

 Please respond directly to Arnold Garlick, President, Pacific Search
Consultants,
2377 S. El Camino Real Suite 201, San Clemente, CA  92672  Email:
arnold at pacific.com
(ASCII Files or MS Word compatible documents ONLY PLEASE, NO Postscript
files, PLEASE) Fax: (949) 366-9200.

Please refer to Position #2487







-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:36:36 EST
From:  Sandypac30 at aol.com
Subject:  Software Engineer in Speech Modeling and Synthesis


SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
Location:  Washington DC

For a complete listing of our current career opportunities, please visit our
Web Page at http://www.pacific.com

 Significant career opportunity for a qualified software engineer to
 help develop innovative speech modeling and synthesis techniques for
 application in voice-interactive products and services.

  Main group objectives:

  Work with a team of engineers and scientists to develop and implement
  techniques for automatically generating natural sounding voice
  messages in multiple languages.  Techniques employed will include TTS
  and hybrid synthesis.

  Key Responsibilities:

  Assist with the general development and enhancement of existing voice
  output systems.

  Develop corpus-based approaches to modeling speaker-specific duration
  and intonation characteristics.

  Develop objective and subjective methods for evaluating speech
  synthesis quality.

  Establish guidelines and automatic procedures to facilitate the design
  and recording of message components to be used in hybrid synthesis
  systems.

  Other Duties:

  Develop software modules in both the UNIX and NT environments to
  implement systems in support of the synthesis project aims.

  Communicate with prospects and customers to better understand their
  specific voice output requirements, and translate these requirements
  into development plans.

  Occassional work on recognition, interactive dialog related systems
  work.

  Qualifications:

  Essential: Masters degree or equivalent level of knowledge in
  Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or Electrical
  Engineering.  Willingness to relocate to the Washington, DC area.

  Desirable: PhD in one of these areas.

  Experience Required:

  Essential:
  2 years in speech analysis and/or synthesis; 3 years programming in C
  or C++

  Desirable:
  5+ years in speech analysis/synthesis with an emphasis on prosody
  analysis/synthesis in multiple European languages.

  Specialist Training Required:

  Essential:
  Experience in speech synthesis.

  Desirable:
  Statistical pattern recognition, ToBI or other standard prosody
  labeling method.  Automatic POS tagging techniques. DSP. Acoustic
  Phonetics.

  Particular Skills Required:

  Essential:
  Fluent programming in C and/or C++.  Technical report writing. Fluent
  in English.

  Desirable:
  Good verbal communication. Working knowledge of Tcl/Tk, Perl, Java.
  Fluency in multiple European languages.

  Type of Person Required:

  Essential:
  Creative thinker and doer capable of independent, focused R&D aimed
  at specific project objectives.  Must communicate effectively with
  co-workers to establish goals, approaches, and to track progress.  Must
  be flexible and willing to apply a theoretical background to solving
  practical
  problems.

  Desirable:
  Capable of assuming a leadership role as the company grows.

Please respond directly to Arnold Garlick, President, Pacific Search
Consultants,
2377 S. El Camino Real Suite 201, San Clemente, CA  92672  Email:
arnold at pacific.com
(ASCII Files or MS Word compatible documents ONLY PLEASE, NO Postscript
files, PLEASE) Fax: (949) 366-9200.

Please refer to Position #2443








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