10 November: fyi -- speech, MA
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(2 jobs)
Position: Computational Linguist (Speech Synthesis)
Department: Engineering
Location: Boston, MA USA
Description:
You will be working with the industry leading Speechify TTS system -
Based on AT&T's speech synthesis technology - to improve the quality,
Robustness and performance of the text processing engine. You will
develop the engine to support a range of additional languages and
develop additional features and functionality to enhance performance of
the TTS engine and related products in future applications.
Responsibilities:
* Architectural design of a multi-lingual, highly configurable, and
robust text processing engine.
* Robust morphology and syntax for TTS
* Prosody generation
* Working as part of a team of speech technology experts
Requirements:
* 2+ years research experience in speech/language technology
* Desire and ability to work as part of a team
* Familiarity with XML authoring and tools
* Strong C/C++ programming skills
* Fluency in UNIX or NT (ideally both)
* Excellent oral and written communications skills in English -
additional languages are a bonus
* MSCS or MA (or equivalent experience)
* Be able to work with a minimum amount of direct supervision
* Instill confidence in your abilities
* Identify functionality versus schedule tradeoffs under pressure
* Work well with other technical experts in speech technology and
application development
Please email resumes to: jobs@speechworks.com
Position: Speech Synthesis Engineer (Core Algorithms)
Department: Engineering
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Description:
You will be working with the industry leading Speechify TTS system -
Based on AT&T's speech synthesis technology - to improve the quality and
performance of the core engine. Based on knowledge gained from
customer deployment of TTS, you will also develop tools to enhance
application use of TTS, adding features and functionality to the
current technology, and developing new technology for future products.
Responsibilities:
* Signal processing and speech modification
* Efficient corpus-based unit selection algorithms
* Application specific prosody generation
* Natural language processing
* Working as part of a team of speech technology experts
Requirements:
* 2+ years research experience in speech synthesis technology
* Desire and ability to work as part of a team
* Very strong C/C++ programming skills
* Fluency in UNIX or NT (ideally both)
* Excellent oral and written communications skills in English -
additional languages are a bonus
* MSEE/MSCS or higher (or equivalent experience)
* Be able to work with a minimum amount of direct supervision
* Instill confidence in your abilities
* Identify functionality versus schedule tradeoffs under pressure
* Work well with other technical experts in speech technology and
application development
Please email resumes to: jobs@speechworks.com
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