Linguist II

Position Summary

Position: Linguist II
Location: Remote in US
Duration: Contract
Job : 174885

This is a remote role requiring expertise in linguistics, specifically Tamil language. The primary function of the TTS Linguist CW is to determine speech data needs and contribute to data-based model and product improvements. Candidates must be linguist experts, not just native speakers.

• Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
• Create and refine text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance, and address pain points.

• 3-4 years of experience in linguistics or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, and ToBI.

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$50-55

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