Tagalog Linguist Expert

TELUS Digital AI Community; Rizal; Sur place; PHP 600 000 - 900 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The TELUS Digital AI Community is seeking a Linguistic Analyst to evaluate AI-generated speech for naturalness, accuracy, and prosody. The role emphasizes linguistic patterns, dialectology, and dataset quality across Filipino speech variants.

Applicants should have a strong foundation in Tagalog linguistics, phonetics, and language resource annotation, with experience in ASR/TTS contexts and dataset development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a linguistic field as listed.
• 2+ years of professional experience in linguistic analysis, speech science, dialect research, or voice AI linguistics projects.

Responsabilités

• 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 and linguistic nuances in speech recognition outputs.
• Conduct linguistic quality evaluation of speech output including grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse coherence.
• Apply phonetic and phonological analysis to identify pronunciation variations and dialectal features.
• Provide structured linguistic feedback for model improvement.

Connaissances

Tagalog phonetics

Phonology

Syntax

Language quality assessment

Linguistic analysis

Speech data annotation

Formation

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

Outils

IPA notation

SAMPA

Spectrogram analysis

Description du poste

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