27.4151, Jobs: English; Japanese; Phonology: Phonologist / Phonetician, Amazon Alexa

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Subject: 27.4151, Jobs:  English; Japanese; Phonology: Phonologist / Phonetician, Amazon Alexa

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:27:11
From:  Marco Nicolis [nicolism at amazon.com]
Subject: English; Japanese; Phonology: Phonologist / Phonetician, Amazon Alexa, Cambridge, United Kingdom

 
University or Organization: Amazon Alexa 
Department: TTS
Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Job Title: Japanese Data Analyst
Job Rank: Other; Phonologist / Phonetician

Specialty Areas: Phonology 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Japanese (jpn) 

Description:

Want to work on one of the coolest and most innovative pieces of technology in
the recent years? We built Amazon Alexa, the Amazon cloud service that powers
devices such as Amazon Echo, FireTV, Amazon Tap and Echo Dot. And this is just
the beginning. We’re on to build the Star Trek computer and you have a chance
to be part of this. Come join us, together we will revolutionize the way
people interact with devices and services! We are inventing the future.

At Amazon, we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, staring
from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and
reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it.

This is a six months contractor position, with possible renewals. The
successful candidate  will work out of our Cambridge, UK offices.

We are looking for a phonologist/phonetician to help us with various
annotation tasks in Japanese, including the following:

- Transliteration of kanjis into kana
- Phonemic transcription
- Annotation of prosodic and accentual characteristics of speech
- Carrying out listening tests to report incorrect output in our voices
- Proofreading text to ensure lack of typos or undesirable content.

Basic qualifications

- Degree in linguistics, ideally with focus on phonetics/phonology
- Native level proficiency in Japanese (standard Tokyo dialect)
- Able to communicate in English

Additional desirable qualifications

- Comfortable with command line interface in *nix environments
- Knowledge of regular expressions
- Phonemic transcription



Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2016 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: nicolism at amazon.com 
Contact Information
	Marco Nicolis 
	Email: nicolism at amazon.com 


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