27.4238, Jobs: Chinese, Mandarin; Hindi; Japanese; Korean; Computational Linguistics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics: TTS Linguist, Amazon Alexa

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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:53:33
From: Marco Nicolis [nicolism at amazon.com]
Subject: Chinese, Mandarin; Hindi; Japanese; Korean; Computational Linguistics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics: TTS Linguist, Amazon Alexa, Cambridge, UK / Gdansk, Poland

 
University or Organization: Amazon Alexa 
Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Job Title: TTS Linguist (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi)
Job Rank: Other; TTS Linguist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      Hindi (hin) 
                      Japanese (jpn) 
                      Korean (kor) 

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.

The successful candidates will be working either from the Amazon office in
Gdansk, Poland (preferred) or from the Amazon office in Cambridge, UK.  

As a TTS Linguist you will work alongside Software Developers who are subject
matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You are expected to
have solid knowledge of linguistics, in particular knowledge of
phonetics/phonology. You will be working on a variety of tasks to improve
natural language processing of TTS (text-to-speech). You will actively
collaborate with Software Developers with linguistic expertise throughout the
whole language and voice building process at Ivona/Amazon. 

The tasks include:

- Normalizing textual resources through regular expressions.
- Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing
modules.
- Labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines.
- Producing / validating phonetic transcriptions and transliteration into
Roman script.
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data.

Basic qualifications:

- Solid knowledge of phonetics/phonology.
- Native-level proficiency in the target language.
- Solid knowledge of regular expressions.
- Ability to create / fix phonetic transcriptions in the target language.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools.

Preferred qualifications:

- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python).
- Degree in Linguistics, with specialization in Phonology, Computational
linguistics or similar.
- Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git).
- Solid communication skills.
- Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new
technologies related to foreign languages, linguistics, phonetics, phonology
and language technology.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment.



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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