Job Description
The linguist is responsible for improving TTS quality in the language of expertise. These language experts are needed to:
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Curate phonetic data audio
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Work on annotation and data modeling for TTS – audio related tools / data models
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Make informed judgements of quality
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Improve aspects of the pipeline (text normalization, pronunciation prediction, etc.)
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Know what we don’t know such as: preemptively identify problems specific to a new language, design test sets to illustrate these problems and potentially help design solutions to those problems
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
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Undergraduate Degree in Linguistics OR minimum of 2 years of experience with International Phonetic Alphabet
Preferred Qualifications:
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Bilingual (German & English)
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Minimum of 6 months of experience with Command Line / Linux experience
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Minimum of 6 months of experience with Python / JavaScript experience