26 March: fyi -- Greek, Switzerland
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SVOX AG is a dynamic technology company specialized in text-to-speech. We
are seeking to temporarily (9 months) add to our language development team
a computational linguist for Greek. You will create new language components
for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
We invite applications from language specialists that natively speak Greek.
SVOX provides a varied position in an international, fast-paced,
results-oriented environment.
Tasks:
- Development of language-specific components needed to analyse texts
(grammars, rule sets, lexicon evaluation and script-based adaptation)
- Quality assessment and improvement of phonetic transcriptions
- Definition of accentuation and phrasing rules
- Definition of grapheme-to-phoneme rules
- Preparation of text material for recordings
- Supervising the recordings
- Annotating the recordings and creating a speech database
- Testing and quality assessment of the integrated system
Qualifications and required skills:
- Native speaker of Greek
- Masters degree in linguistics, computer science, or related field
- 1+ years experience in text-to-speech technology is a strong plus
- Interest in speech synthesis, prosody, and morpho-syntactic analysis of text
- Programming and scripting skills are desirable
Personal requirements:
- Working knowledge of English
- Excellent organization and communication skills
- Has a positive attitude and enjoys working in a team
- High quality standards
- Willingness to relocate to Zurich, Switzerland, for 9 months
Start Date: At earliest availability.
Application Deadline: (Open until filled)
Email Address for Applications: hr@svox.com
Contact Information:
Barbara Steiner
Email: steiner@svox.com
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