25.3655, Jobs: English; Phonetics; Phonology: Linguist/Phonetician - Speech Data Validation, Nuance Communications BVBA

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Subject: 25.3655, Jobs: English; Phonetics; Phonology: Linguist/Phonetician - Speech Data Validation, Nuance Communications BVBA

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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:44:25
From: Craig Robertson [Craig.Robertson at Nuance.com]
Subject: English; Phonetics; Phonology: Linguist/Phonetician - Speech Data Validation, Nuance Communications BVBA, Merelbeke, Belgium

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University or Organization: Nuance Communications BVBA 
Job Location: Merelbeke, Belgium 
Web Address: www.Nuance.com
Job Title: Linguist/Phonetician - Speech Data Validation
Job Rank: Linguist/Phonetician - Speech Data Validation

Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

Position Summary
- Major duties and responsibilities: assisting in the speech data validation
effort for the development of UK English TTS voices.
- General reporting structure: The contractor will be a member of a data
validation team working on the above named projects and reporting to Mihaela
Calacean (supervised by Mario DeBock).
- Location: Merelbeke, Belgium

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Principal Responsibilities
- Perform phonetic validation of speech data i.e. listen to voice recordings
and check if orthography, phonetic transcriptions and prosodic labels are
correct and match the audio signals.
- Perform segmentation validation i.e. check if phoneme boundaries are well
aligned to the audio signal.
- Perform synthesis evaluation i.e.  listen and evaluate synthesis generated
with Female/Male UK English text-to-speech voices.
- Participate in the effort of tuning the TTS voices.
- Testing the product release.

Qualifications
- Education: Candidates need to have studied English at an advanced
(university) level (e.g. germanisten, vertalers, tolken).
- Number of Years of Work Experience: N/A

Required Skills
- Native or near-native proficiency in English
- Thorough understanding of phonological and phonetic concepts
- Very good listening skills
- Strong computer skills in a Windows environment and greater than average
comfort with software
- Strong sense of precision and quality in the daily job
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Good problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills

Preferred Skills
- Experience with correcting phonetic transcriptions for speech technology
- Familiarity with development of language assets of text-to-speech
technologies



Application Deadline: 15-Oct-2014 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://jobs.nuance.com/ 
Contact Information:
	Craig Robertson 
	Email: Craig.Robertson at Nuance.com 





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