9 October: fyi -- parsing, Munich

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Ref. No. MU-2009-29

Company Profile:

SVOX, a leading supplier of embedded speech solutions, has a
reputation for quality and customer focus. SVOX drives adoption of
speech user interfaces in automotive and mobile device industries. The
company offers Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech Output (TTS) as well
as complete Speech Dialog solutions. SVOX focus on quality and the use
of flexible software architectures allows for optimized embedded
speech solutions that can be easily tailored to customers' technical
requirements and market needs. For more information, please visit our
website at the web address above.

Tasks / responsibilities:
- Analysis and management of requirements
- Design, implementation and test of new and improved speech dialog components
- Design and implementation of script languages and parsers for semantic
interpretation
- Dialog engine quality assurance
- Creation and maintenance of documentation

Qualification and skills required:
- Masters degree in Computer Science with computational linguistic
background or related field
- 3+ years experience in software product development
- Excellent programming in C and C++, Java expertise is a strong plus
- Highly structured approach to software development
- Experience in speech dialog or multimodal systems
- Profound knowledge in:
+Parser technologies (Chart-, CKY- and Early parser, parse forest)
+Development and usage of script languages (Yacc, Flex/Lex, ANTLR,
Lua, JavaScript)
+Heuristic search (Viterbi, A-Star)
- Basic knowledge of artificial intelligence is a plus
- Ability to design and implement software in a strongly
platform-independent way

Personal requirements:
- Above average commitment to the job
- Team player with good interpersonal skills
- Creativity and capability to understand new technologies and topics
- High quality standards
- Good knowledge of English and German
- Willingness to relocate to Munich, Germany

Start date:
At earliest availability

Contact
Please contact Ms. Ariane Kobari at the telephone number and address below,
or send your application with reference number MU-2009-29 to the email
address below.


Application Deadline: (Open until filled)
Mailing Address for Applications:
HR Manager Ariane Kobari
SVOX AG
Baslerstrasse 30
Zurich, ZH CH-8048
Switzerland
Email Address for Applications: hr@svox.com
Web Address for Applications: http://www.svox.com/Careers.aspx
Contact Information:
HR Manager Ariane Kobari
Email: hr@svox.com
Phone: 0041435440600

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