Linguist

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Location - Remote (All across US)

Duration - 6 months (Possible Extension)

Summary:

The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.

• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.

• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.

• Create and perfect 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 remedy pain points.

Skills:

• Native speaker of Telugu/Kannada.

• 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 communication skills both verbal and written.

• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI. Education/

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Job  : #25-45571

Recruiter Email : sand

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