28.4160, Jobs: English; German; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: TTS Voice Developer, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 28.4160, Jobs: English; German; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: TTS Voice Developer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:40:42
From: Mihaela Calacean [mihaela.calacean at nuance.com]
Subject: English; German; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: TTS Voice Developer, Nuance Communications, Merelbreke, Belgium

 University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Merelbeke, Belgium 
Job Title: TTS Voice Developer
Job Rank: Linguist

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology 

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

Description:

We are looking to strengthen our voices development team with a full-time
German-native contributor. The position is limited in time to a period of 12
months. 

More details about the job below:

Organization: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Position title: TTS Voice Developer
Position type: Full-time, Temporary (one year), Preferred start date: 15th of
November 2017 (open until filled)
Project duration: One year. This is not a permanent position but a full-time
contract position.
Location: Merelbeke, Belgium
Required Language(s): German, English
Job Rank: Junior (Entry Level)

Major duties and responsibilities: 
- Assisting voice builders in the development of German Text-To-Speech (TTS)
voices, mainly supporting on speech data validation.

Principal responsibilities:
- Perform text selection for recordings with female German TTS voice;
proofreading, correction and modification of selected text in German
- 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 German text-to-speech voices.
- Participate in the effort of tuning the TTS voices.
- Testing the product release

Required skills:
- Native proficiency in German
- Good level of 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
- Familiarity with machine learning techniques 

Education:
- Candidates need to have studied German at an advanced university level (MSc
degree in phonetics, computational linguistics or another relevant field).



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: mihaela.calacean at nuance.com 

Contact Information:
	Mihaela Calacean 
	Email: mihaela.calacean at nuance.com



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