24 October: fyi -- speech, UK
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We are a specialist UK recruitment company seeking speech recognition
developers to join one of our many UK speech companies.
This description is NOT exhaustive and we would welcome applications
from any speech developers who feel they can add value to this company.
Please forward your CV with salary expectations as we may have an
alternative position for you
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
-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
Location : UK
Salary - NEGOTIABLE
"Opening your eyes to the future of technical recruitment"
Technical Identity
No.2 London Wall Buildings,
London,
EC2M 5PP.
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' +44 (0)207 993 2974 (DD)
web site: www.techid.co.uk
nickblake
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