18 February: fyi -- speech science, Belgium
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Nuance Mobile builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and
speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with
mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make
mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer
self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most
advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical
know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
Fuelled by a rapidly growing number of customers adding speech and natural
language technology to their cars and navigation devices, Nuance offers an
exciting opportunity for a Development / Speech Integration Engineer in its
Embedded R&D department.
For more information, please see www.nuance.com.
Nuance is an equal opportunity employer.
To be considered an applicant, please submit your resume to this job at:
http://www.nuance.com/company/careers/
Role
Nuance is seeking a Development/Speech integration Engineer who possesses a
solid background in application programming and embedded systems.
Candidates should enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere
that applies speech science in a commercial, result driven and customer
oriented setting.
In this role, you will be responsible for porting Nuance state-of-the-art
speech recognition and text to speech products to different embedded
platforms typically found in the automotive or mobile market. As
development engineer in the Professional Services team, you will be in
close contact with the research lab developing the technologies, and will
be contributing to speech enabling, automotive hands-free car-kits,
automotive and mobile navigation systems, or similar kind of devices where
speech is bringing clear added value. You will be working together with our
customers' integration teams to help them including our technologies into
successful products in an efficient way. While most of the job will take
place in our offices in Merelbeke, a few short trips per year inside or
outside Europe might be possible.
Qualifications required
?? Bachelors or Graduate University degree in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent. Newly
graduated or having a few years of professional experience
?? Fluent in English, both written and spoken
?? Strong C/C++ programming skills
?? Good software/system problem-solving skills
?? ability to travel for short trips
?? Strong team player, capable to work independently when needed
?? Self learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to
deliver high quality work
?? Strong analytical and problem solving skills and ability to
troubleshoot issues
?? Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving
results cost-effectively
?? Good judgment and quick-thinking
?? Excellent written and verbal communications skills
?? Ability to scope work taking technical, business and time-frame
constraints into consideration
?? Mastering Office applications
Beneficial Skills:
?? Experience with embedded hardware platforms, operating systems,
and software development
?? Knowledgeable about audio streaming technologies, real-time
protocols, codecs, signal processing
?? Knowledgeable about WinCe, Linux, QNX, or uItron
?? User interface development and/or testing experience
?? Experience with mobile platforms such as Android
?? Operational knowledge of other languages (French or other
2. Title - Speech Scientist
Location ??? Aachen or Ulm or Merelbeke
Role Type ??? Permanent
Company overview
Nuance Mobile builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and
speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with
mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make
mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer
self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most
advanced mobile applications and content ??? regardless of technical
know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
Fuelled by a rapidly growing number of customers adding speech and natural
language technology to their cars and navigation devices, Nuance offers an
exciting opportunity for a Speech Scientist in its Embedded R&D department.
For more information, please see www.nuance.com.
Nuance is an equal opportunity employer.
To be considered an applicant, please submit your resume to this job at:
http://www.nuance.com/company/careers/
Role
Nuance is seeking a Speech Scientist who possesses a solid background in
speech recognition and acoustic modeling. Candidates should enjoy working
in a fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere that applies speech technology in
a commercial, result driven, and customer oriented setting.
The candidate will join an experienced international team with expertise
in creating, optimizing and testing state-of-the-art ASR solutions for
embedded devices. The position is located either at our Aachen or Ulm
office in Germany or at our Merelbeke office in Belgium.
Responsibilities
As part of the worldwide Embedded R&D organization, you will be
contributing to the development of embedded and distributed speech
recognition technology for the Mobile and Automotive markets.
Representative tasks will include:
?? Training of acoustic models or statistical language models for
various languages.
?? Localizing speech recognition systems toward specific
markets/languages.
?? Contributing to the improvement, design, implementation,
evaluation, optimization and testing of new algorithms, tools and
processes.
?? Supporting our professional services teams and contributing to
customer project success.
?? Assisting senior team members in research tasks.
Qualifications required
?? MSc degree in linguistics, engineering, mathematics or physics.
?? A PhD on speech processing or similar research experience is a
strong plus.
?? Experience in acoustic modeling, NLU or statistical language
modeling is recommended.
?? Additional background in computational linguistics is a plus.
?? Working in Windows and Linux environments comes naturally to you.
Experience with computing farms and grid software is welcome.
?? You are knowledgable about small, embedded platforms and
requirements of software applications designed for them.
?? Good software skills are required, especially scripting language
like Perl or Python in a Linux/Unix environment, and knowledge of C/C++.
?? Experience in speech processing or machine learning techniques is
an asset.
?? You are a team player, willing to take initiative, and are goal
oriented.
?? You have a strong sense of precision and quality in your daily job.
?? You are fluent in English and you can write high quality
documentation.
?? You illustrate your interest in languages by speaking at least
two other languages.
3. Role Title - Speech Scientist
Location ??? Aachen or Ulm
Role type ??? Permanent
Company overview
Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for
businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications
and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the
way people interact with information and how they create, share and use
documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses,
experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account
information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their
destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and
searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is
what Nuance is all about.
Nuance Mobile builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and
speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with
mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make
mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer
self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most
advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical
know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
As a contributing member of Nuance, you will work within a dynamic team
environment to develop, support, market and sell our award-winning
software applications. We offer competitive compensation packages;
including stock options, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401(k), full health
and welfare benefits and a challenging technical but casual work
environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team that operates
worldwide (Europe, US, APAC). Be a part of our fast growing track of
continuing success.
For more information, please see www.nuance.com.
Nuance is an equal opportunity employer.
To be considered an applicant, please submit your resume to this job at:
http://www.nuance.com/company/careers/
Responsilities
Train and supervise language specialists on prompt creation using
Nuance???s internal tools
Develop custom voices for use with Nuance???s leading text to speech products
Specify voice recordings, supervise output quality
Develop Recorded Active Prompt databases
Work with R&D on prompt tuning and concatenation processes and tools
Qualifications required
?? Masters or PhD University degree in computational linguistics
or linguistics or software design, or equivalent degree
??? Experience with audio and speech output design
??? Experience with speech synthesis and developing speech
synthesis systems
??? Good programming skills, preferably Perl or Python
??? Ability to organize and prioritize work in view of meeting
objectives and within technical and business constraints
??? Mastering MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
Outlook)
??? Excellent written and verbal communication skills; team
worker who can inspire others
??? Strong coordination skills and strong skills to develop new
concepts and processes
??? Willing to be on travel (for 1 or 2 days) on a regular basis
4. Role Title - Linguistic Engineer
Location ??? North America or Europe
Role Type ??? Permanent
Company overview
Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for
businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications
and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the
way people interact with information and how they create, share and use
documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses,
experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account
information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their
destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and
searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is
what Nuance is all about.
Nuance's broad range of healthcare specific applications and technologies
help service providers significantly increase their bottom line in today's
hyper-competitive market. Whether you need to automate the routing of
calls, the creation or collection of information, process transcriptions or
complete claims, we have a solution to reduce manual tasks and improve
patient care, increase staff efficiency, and cut costs.
As a contributing member of Nuance, you will work within a dynamic team
environment to develop, support, market and sell our award-winning
software applications. We offer competitive compensation packages;
including stock options, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401(k), full health
and welfare benefits and a challenging technical but casual work
environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team that operates
worldwide (Europe, US, APAC). Be a part of our fast growing track of
continuing success.
For more information, please see www.nuance.com.
Nuance is an equal opportunity employer.
To be considered an applicant, please submit your resume to this job at:
http://www.nuance.com/company/careers/
Role Responsibilites
Nuance Communications, Inc., a world-wide leader in speech technology, is
seeking a full-time linguist to support expansion of its mobile search and
messaging products into East Asian language markets.
Candidates for this position should be located either in North America or
in Europe.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Evaluating design and quality of pronunciation dictionaries
- Identifying new entries for general and specialized dictionaries
- Correcting existing dictionary entries
- Phonetic transcription
- Serving as language expert resource for engineers and researchers
- Managing language consultant contractors
Qualifications
LANGUAGE SKILL REQUIREMENTS
English: native or near-native skill
Native or near-native skill and literacy in at least one of the
following::Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean
A high level of proficiency and literacy in at least one of the following:
- Mandarin Chinese . Japanese or korean (whichever was not used to
satisfy the previous requirement)
- Vietnamese
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- A post-graduate degree in linguistics
- Experience with phonetic transcription and the International Phonetic
Alphabet
- Ability to work independently
- Basic knowledge of Unix/Linux (navigating directory structures, copying
files, etc.)
- Familiarity with a text editor (e.g. emacs or vi)
- Ability to program in a scripting language (e.g. Perl or Python)
HELPFUL SKILLS
- Expertise in medicine, law, or technology
- Team leadership and/or management experience
5. Role Title: Research Engineer Embedded TTS
Location: Merelbeke, Belgium
Type: Permanent
Company overview:
Nuance Mobile builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and
speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with
mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make
mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer
self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most
advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical
know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
Fuelled by a rapidly growing number of customers adding speech and natural
language technology to their cars and navigation devices, Nuance offers an
exciting opportunity for a Research Engineer for Text-To-Speech (TTS).
Job:
Nuance is seeking a Research Engineer who possesses a solid background in
embedded speech technology. Candidates should enjoy working in a
fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere that applies speech technology in a
commercial, result driven, and customer oriented setting.
The candidate will join an experienced international team with expertise
in creating, optimizing and testing state-of-the-art TTS solutions for
embedded devices. The position is located at our Merelbeke office
(Belgium).
Responsibilites
As part of the worldwide Embedded R&D organization, you will be
contributing to the development of embedded text-to-speech technology for
the Mobile and Automotive markets.
Representative tasks will include:
?? Design, implementation, evaluation, optimization and testing of
new algorithms and tools for embedded text-to-speech synthesis, with a
strong focus on speech signal processing.
?? Activities are targeted at the creation of commercial products
for resource limited platforms.
?? Focus on creating efficient production and development processes
to bring the technology to marketable products in a wide range of
languages.
?? Occasional application of the developed algorithms and tools for
producing systems for a specific language.
?? Creation of demonstrators and evaluators of new technologies
Qualifications
* You have a University degree in engineering, mathematics or physics.
* A PhD degree in speech processing or equivalent relevant experience is a
strong asset.
* Experience in text-to-speech research, especially signal processing
and/or statistical modeling, is required.
* Knowledge about small platforms and experience in developing software for
them is a plus.
* Strong software skills are required, especially C/C++ and a scripting
language like Perl or Python. Knowledge of Matlab is a plus.
* Additional background in computational linguistics is a plus.
* You are a team player, willing to take initiative, and are goal
oriented.
* You have a strong desire to make things "really work" in practice, on
hardware platforms with limited memory and processing power.
* You are fluent in English and at least one other language, and you can
write high quality English documentation.
6. Role Title ??? Embedded Software Engineer
Location - Merelbeke, Belgium - possibly Aachen or Ulm, Germany.
Role Type ??? Permanent
Company overview
Nuance Mobile builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and
speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with
mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make
mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer
self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most
advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical
know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
Fuelled by a rapidly growing number of customers adding speech and natural
language technology to their cars and navigation devices, Nuance offers an
exciting opportunity for an Embedded Speech Application Developer.
Job
Nuance is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer who possesses a solid
background in software development and maintenance. Candidates should
enjoy working in a fast???paced, collaborative atmosphere that applies
speech technology in a commercial, result driven, and customer oriented
setting.
The candidate will join an experienced international team with expertise
in creating, optimizing and testing portable Text-To-Speech software for
embedded devices, and will develop Text-To-Speech software components for
automotive customers. The position is located at our Merelbeke office in
Belgium, - possibly Aachen or Ulm, Germany.
Responsibilities:
As part of the worldwide Embedded R&D organization, you will be
contributing to the software development activities on Nuance
state-of-the-art Text-To-Speech products targetted for different embedded
platforms typically found in the automotive market.
Representative tasks will include
?? Design, implement, validate, and optimize Text-To-Speech software
components for automotive and other mobile devices such as PNDs. These
activities cover all phases of the software lifecycle.
?? Work with peer language developers, voice developers and
development engineers on adding languages, voices and voice models.
?? Maintain Text-To-Speech product releases.
?? Give support on porting and integrating Text-To-Speech products
in customer projects.
Qualifications
?? Demonstrated strong C / C++ programming skills.
?? Practical software engineering skills: version control, build
system, verification, metrics.
?? Familiarity with embedded HW / OS.
?? Minimum 2 years software development experience for commercial
products involving embedded technology in either automotive, consumer
electronics or telecommunications.
?? Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving
results cost???effectively.
?? Customer Service attitude, good presentation and communication
skills
o Ability and willingness to handle occasional peak demands.
o Ability and willingness to travel for short trips.
o Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
Additional skills
?? Java, Python or Perl programming skills, or experience with other
programming languages.
?? Experience with speech or natural language technology.
?? Experience with network devices and communication protocol.
?? Operational knowledge of other languages.
Nicki Myddleton-Jones
EMEA Senior Recruiter
+44 7818594250 Mobile
NUANCE.COM
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