14 October: fyi -- speech, UK
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I am a specialist UK recruiter seeking speech recognition developers to
join one of my many UK speech companies the skills below are required
steve.crown@techid.co.uk
Job Description
I am looking for a self-motivated experienced speech engineer, who
enjoys working in the dynamic and flexible environment of a successful
and growing start-up.
Requirements
*Experience in development and/or deployment of a speech recognition
engine, with emphasis on language modelling, dictionary tuning, grammar
development, etc
*Understanding of the technology and techniques used in ASR engines
*Good software engineering skills
*C and/or C++
*Pragmatic: able to make the trade-off between getting something done,
and doing a robust maintainable job
*Experienced with all stages of development, including requirements
gathering, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance
*Comfortable with basic development processes and tools, including bug
tracking, source control, release engineering
*Comfortable and experienced working under both Linux and Windows
*3+ years industrial / commercial programming experience or very
relevant academic experience
*A good degree in an appropriate subject
*You must have the right to work in the UK
*Understanding of the importance of the data model underlying any speech
system
*Experience working with commercial ASR engines, at the C API level,
particularly Nuance
*Experience working with HTK and/or Sphinx
*Masters in speech, computational linguistics, signal processing
*Audio signal processing / codec experience
*Statistical language modelling
*Phonetic pronunciation lexicon development
*Programming ability in Perl or similar scripting language well-suited
to text processing
*Have worked on a live application or service that includes speech
recognition
*Experience working with more than one engine would be particularly
beneficial
*Belief in iterative development and agile methodologies
*Have worked in a start-up environment
Location : UK
Salary – Up to £60’000
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