Tagalog Linguist Expert

TELUS Digital AI Community; Bulacan; On-site; PHP 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital AI Community seeks a Linguistic Analyst to evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS/ASR) for natural language patterns, pronunciation accuracy, and prosody, focusing on Tagalog dialects and regional variations.

The role requires native-level Tagalog and professional English, with expertise in phonetics, morphology, syntax, and language quality assessment to support dataset creation and model improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Language Sciences, or related linguistic discipline
• 2+ years professional experience in linguistic analysis, speech science, language documentation, dialect research, computational linguistics, speech dataset creation, or voice AI linguistics projects

Responsibilities

• Analyze AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness of language patterns, pronunciation accuracy, prosodic rhythm, intonation, and emotional register from a linguistic perspective
• Identify transcription errors, phonological and morphological issues, and linguistic nuances in speech recognition (ASR) outputs
• Conduct linguistic quality evaluation of speech output including assessment of grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse coherence
• Apply phonetic and phonological analysis to identify pronunciation variations, dialectal features, and language-specific patterns
• Provide structured linguistic feedback for model improvement
• Apply expertise in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax to identify speech variations across Tagalog dialects and accents
• Analyze prosodic features including stress patterns, intonation contours, and rhythm across different speech varieties
• Document regional and sociolinguistic variations in speech patterns to inform dataset diversity
• Evaluate linguistic consistency and naturalness across different speaker profiles and contexts
• Review voice recordings for linguistic clarity, consistency, and technical quality
• Apply linguistic expertise to support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets with attention to language structure and variation
• Perform detailed linguistic annotation and labeling for dataset integrity (phonetic transcription, prosodic markup, morphological tagging where applicable)
• Assess dataset diversity and representativeness from a linguistic perspective
• Identify and document linguistic patterns that improve ASR and TTS model performance
• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity, voice generation, and conversational AI evaluation projects with linguistic expertise
• Provide linguistic quality assurance for voice technology projects focused on naturalness and semantic/pragmatic accuracy
• Document linguistic findings to inform model improvement and contribute to research insights
• Assess how linguistic features impact user perception and model performance

Skills

Tagalog phonetics

Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Speech analysis

Language quality assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related field

Job description

What You'll Do

Linguistic Analysis & Language Quality Assessment

• Analyze AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness of language patterns, pronunciation accuracy, prosodic rhythm, intonation, and emotional register from a linguistic perspective.
• Identify transcription errors, phonological and morphological issues, and linguistic nuances in speech recognition (ASR) outputs.
• Conduct linguistic quality evaluation of speech output including assessment of grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse coherence.
• Apply phonetic and phonological analysis to identify pronunciation variations, dialectal features, and language-specific patterns.
• Provide structured linguistic feedback for model improvement.

Language Variation & Dialectological Analysis

• Apply expertise in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax to identify speech variations across Tagalog dialects and accents
• Analyze prosodic features including stress patterns, intonation contours, and rhythm across different speech varieties
• Document regional and sociolinguistic variations in speech patterns to inform dataset diversity
• Evaluate linguistic consistency and naturalness across different speaker profiles and contexts
• Review voice recordings for linguistic clarity, consistency, and technical quality
• Apply linguistic expertise to support creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets with attention to language structure and variation
• Perform detailed linguistic annotation and labeling for dataset integrity (phonetic transcription, prosodic markup, morphological tagging where applicable)
• Assess dataset diversity and representativeness from a linguistic perspective
• Identify and document linguistic patterns that improve ASR and TTS model performance

Voice AI Project Support

• Support TTS, ASR, voice similarity, voice generation, and conversational AI evaluation projects with linguistic expertise
• Provide linguistic quality assurance for voice technology projects focused on naturalness and semantic/pragmatic accuracy
• Document linguistic findings to inform model improvement and contribute to research insights
• Assess how linguistic features impact user perception and model performance

Mandatory Qualifications

Education / Professional Background

One of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Language Sciences, or related linguistic discipline

OR

• 2+ years professional experience in: linguistic analysis, speech science, language documentation, dialect research, computational linguistics, speech dataset creation, or voice AI linguistics projects

Linguistic & Technical Competency

• Advanced knowledge of Tagalog phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax
• Working knowledge of: phonetic transcription, spectrogram analysis, prosodic analysis, acoustic phonetics, and language quality assessment
• Familiarity with linguistic annotation tools and practices (IPA notation, SAMPA, or similar systems)
• Ability to apply linguistic frameworks to evaluate speech quality and language naturalness

Qualification path

Language Requirements:

• Native-level Tagalog (C1/C2+) – Required for accurate phonological, prosodic, and semantic analysis
• Professional English (B1+) – Required for technical documentation and collaboration
• Completion of subject-specific qualification assessment (linguistic analysis of speech samples)
• Identity verification (IDV) process – Required as soon as possible after application completion

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with speech science or phonetic research
• Familiarity with ASR or TTS technology from a linguistic perspective
• Knowledge of acoustic analysis tools or spectrograms software
• Experience in language resource creation or corpus linguistics
• Background in sociolinguistics or dialectology
• Published work or research in speech-related linguistics