27.117, Jobs: English; German; Computational Linguistics: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 27.117, Jobs: English; German; Computational Linguistics: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 13:08:20
From: Lea Mencner [EMEAjobs at nuance.com]
Subject: English; German; Computational Linguistics: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications, Ulm, Germany

University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Ulm, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com/
Job Title: Speech Scientist
Job Rank: Other; Speech Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      German (deu) 

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. 

Contribute to NLU development in automotive projects: supervision and/or
execution of the development of NLU Vocon buffers for the US English and
German language. Participation to the activities on all the projects related
to NLU data procurement.

Responsibilities:

NLU development in automotive projects, in particular:

- Analysis of customer requirements for realizing NLU on embedded platforms.
- In accordance to customer requirement analysis, specifying data needed to
train NLU models.
- Collect, analyze, and process text and audio data in the target language in
order to build a target language model.
- Contribute to the development of tools and procedures with the scope of
optimizing and simplifing the activities of NLU data procurement and NLU
contexts development
- Work with application development engineers and QA teams within the scope of
one or more customer projects to realize the project deliverables.
- Support our customers’ speech software teams to help them evaluate and
integrate Nuance NLU technology into successful products in an efficient way.

Qualifications:

Number of Years of Work Experience: The candidate can be at the first work
experience

Required Skills:

- Costumer focus.
- Native or near-native proficiency in German. Very good oral and written
knowledge of the English language.
- Experiences in programming (particularly Python and regular expressions).
- Team player.
- Good listener and communicator, who can represent Nuance professional
services at the customer’s premises or in written and oral communications with
customers.
- Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving results
cost-effectively.
- Ability and willingness to travel.
- Ability to work independently, including at customer premises, but always as
part of the PS NLU team.
- Self-learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high
quality work.

Preferred Skills:

- Background in speech technology or language processing.
- Experience with Natural Language Understanding or statistical / semantic
language modeling.
- Advanced user of Windows and Linux platforms.
- Engineering practices in design, coding, and testing.

Education: Master University degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Information technology or a comparable field.

Application Deadline: 29-Feb-2016 (Open until filled)

Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: EMEAjobs at nuance.com 

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