18 December: fyi -- speech, Canada
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Maintain Nuance's pronunciation and part-of-speech dictionaries.
Coordinate and contribute to linguistic work for speech recognizer
language module development and text-to-speech synthesizer voice
creation. Participate in the development of speech recognizer
language modules.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
*Coordinate and contribute to linguistic work for speech recognizer
language module development
*Maintain and enhance pronunciation dictionaries for multiple
languages, as well as the dictionary databases.
*In cooperation with the recognizer and TTS teams, unify the dictionaries:
-across products (short-term objective)
-across variations of English (mid-term objective)
-across multiple languages (long-term objective)
*Evaluation of commercial dictionaries for purchase
*Supervise junior linguists
*Coordinate and contribute to linguistic work for text-to-speech
Synthesizer voice creation
*Creation and extension of scripts used for voice talent recording
*Run auto-annotation tool on new Synthesizer voices and correct
segmentation and annotations.
-monitor script annotation quality from the Nuance and
external transcription group
*Develop normalization rules for acronyms, abbreviations, etc. for
multiple languages
*Tuning of initial voice releases, relative to POS tagging, parsers
and prosody modeling.
*Participate in the development of new and tuned Speech Recognizer
Language Modules
*Collection of recognizer training data
-internal and external data collection
-utterance recordings from customer sites in cooperation with
Professional Service team
-evaluation of commercial databases for purchase
-monitor data transcription quality from the Nuance and
external transcription group
*Language module development including, training, testing,
documentation and packaging
REQUIRED SKILLS:
*Thorough understanding of phonetics of conversational speech as it
applies to English, Spanish, French and Portuguese as spoken in the
Americas
*Knowledge and experience with Text-to-Speech Synthesis and/or Speaker
and Speech Recognition technologies
*Ability to communicate effectively and work with teams across
multiple time-zones
*Strong Unix scripting skills
IDEAL SKILLS:
*Graduate degree in Linguistics, Engineering or Computer Science
* or more years of industrial experience
EDUCATION:
*Bachelor's or Graduate degree in Linguistics, Engineering or Computer
Science
Address for Applications:
Attn: Linda Thibault
111 Duke Street
Suite 4100
Montreal, Quebec H3C 2M1
Canada
Position is open until filled.
Contact Information:
Linda Thibault.
Email: linda.thibault@nuance.com
Tel: 514-732-4922
Website: http://nuance.com
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