LINGUIST List 17.1275

Wed Apr 26 2006

Jobs: English & Computational Ling: Researcher, CA

Editor for this issue: Vanessa Manion <vanessalinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Laura Garlick, English & Computational Linguistics: Researcher, Pacific Search Consultants, CA, USA

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Message 1: English & Computational Linguistics: Researcher, Pacific Search Consultants, CA, USA
Date: 25-Apr-2006
From: Laura Garlick <lauraSpeechTekJobs.com>
Subject: English & Computational Linguistics: Researcher, Pacific Search Consultants, CA, USA


University or Organization: Pacific Search Consultants Job Rank: Researcher Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

Computational Linguist, Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Location: Boston area (Position AXG-1005)

The Computational Linguist will work with the company's technical team to develop and integrate linguistic resources and applications for the company's TTS engine.

Areas of Competence:

Computational Linguistics Semantics Linguistics Speech corpus Text corpus

Primary Duties: - Produce and maintain speech corpus, audio data, transcripts and phonetic dictionary, data annotation, and component/model configuration management - Verify existing corpus - Developing utilities, lexicons, and other language resources for company's unique TTS - Adapt text language parsing and analysis software for new TTS needs

Required skills/experience: - Thorough grounding in phonology, phonetics, lexicography, orthography, semantics, morphology, syntax, and other branches of linguistics - Experience with language parsing and analysis software, such as part-of-speech (POS) and syntactic taggers, semantics, and discourse analysis - Experience with formant or concatenated based speech synthesis - Experience working on medium-scale, multi-developer software projects - Experience with development of speech corpus, transcripts, data annotation, and phonetic dictionary - Programming experience in C/C++/Matlab/Perl - Self-motivation and ability to work independently - Familiarity with concepts and techniques from DSP theory, machine learning and statistical modeling is a plus

Must have a Master/PhD. in Engineering, Computer Science or Linguistics with development or research experience in speech synthesis/recognition/technology.

Pacific Search Consultants is an executive search firm specializing in the speech technology industry. To view other open positions or register online, visit www.SpeechTekJobs.com.

Address for Applications:

President Arnold Garlick 2377 S. El Camino Real, Suite #201 San Clemente, CA 92672 USA

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Contact Information:

President Arnold Garlick Email: arnoldSpeechTekJobs.com Phone: (949) 366-9000 Website: http://www.SpeechTekJobs.com