24.1412, Jobs: Portuguese; Comp Ling; Phonetics; Transcription; Speech (ASR, TTS, NLP): Manager, Google

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Subject: 24.1412, Jobs: Portuguese; Comp Ling; Phonetics; Transcription; Speech (ASR, TTS, NLP): Manager, Google

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:20:31
From: Andreia Rauber [DataOpsMan at gmail.com]
Subject: Portuguese; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Transcription; Speech (ASR, TTS, NLP): Manager, Google, São Paulo, Brazil

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University or Organization: Google 
Job Location: São Paulo, Brazil 
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Transcription; Speech (ASR, TTS, NLP)

Required Language(s): Portuguese (por)

Description:

As a Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of Brazilian
Portuguese, you will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high
data quality for speech projects in your own language.

You will be based in the São Paulo office, managing a team of five Data
Evaluators and working on a number of projects towards Speech research: ASR,
TTS, and NLP.

This includes:
-  Managing and overseeing the work of your team;
-  Creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email addresses,
numbers;
-  Providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics;
-  Building and maintaining a database of speech recognition patterns;
-  Creating pronunciations for new lexicon entries, maintaining the lexicon;
-  Working with quality assessment tools according to given guidelines and
using in-house tools.

Job Requirements:
-  Native-level speaker of Brazilian Portuguese (with good command of the
standard dialect) and fluent in English;
-  Keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of the
language's phonology;
-  Must have attended elementary school in Brazil;
-  Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts;
-  Excellent oral and written communication skills;
-  Good organizational skills, previous experience in managing external
resources;
-  Previous experience with speech/NLP-related projects a plus;
-  Advanced degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics preferred;
-  Also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming language;
previous experience working in a Linux environment.

Project duration: 6 months (no possible extension), from mid April to mid
October. This is a temporary position working though a staffing agency and no
visa sponsorship or relocation package is offered.

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in English
(PDF format preferred) with 'Speech Linguistic Project Manager Brazilian
Portuguese' in the subject line.



Application Deadline: 01-Apr-2013 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: DataOpsMan at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Andreia Rauber 
	Email: DataOpsMan at gmail.com 





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