23.4693, Jobs: NLP; Phonetics: Researcher, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 23.4693, Jobs: NLP; Phonetics: Researcher, Nuance Communications

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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:37:51
From:  Barrett [david.barrett at nuance.com]
Subject: Natural Language Processing; Phonetics: Researcher, Nuance Communications, California, USA

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University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://jobs.nuance.com/silicon-valley/programming/jobid2865720-senior-linguist-jobs
Job Rank: Researcher  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Natural Language Processing


Description:

Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch 
and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with 
mobile devices, applications, and services.  Nuance Mobile solutions make 
mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-
service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced 
mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, 
environment, or physical and literacy capabilities. 

As a Linguist, you'll be working in speech synthesis environments that sit 
between Nuance's Research, Product, and Professional Services groups. 
You will be developing speech synthesis products for next-generation, hosted 
speech delivery.

We're looking for someone who is creative, self-driven, and fun to work with - 
especially in a fast-paced environment. Our group is unique in that we work 
across all lines of business, which generates exciting internal and external 
engagements as well as cool mash-up opportunities. Help us create the next 
generation of Human Machine Interfaces that will be incorporated into daily 
life.

Responsibilities:
-  Mine and filter data relevant to speech corpora
-  Prepare corpora for studio recording and annotation
-  Direct voice talent for signal capture and corpus creation
-  Version and distribute packages for external linguistic contractors
-  Enhance product dictionaries to support data domain OOV's
-  Work with internal tools and infrastructure to compile voice fonts and 
associated databases
-  Segment, build, and tune experimental voice fonts
-  Manage and deploy Linux and Windows tools and server environments

Qualifications:
-  5-10 years industry experience as Phonetician
-  Experience working with Text-to-Speech tools and products
-  Some Unix text-processing (AWK, sed) and administration skills (Ubuntu, 
CentOS)
-  Python scripting and NLP experience a++


Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2013 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://jobs.nuance.com/silicon-valley/programming/jobid2865720-senior-linguist-jobs 
Contact Information
	Barrett 
	Email: david.barrett at nuance.com 





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