Tagalog Linguist & Speech Quality Analyst

TELUS Digital AI Community; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

The role emphasizes native Tagalog proficiency, English communication, and experience with phonetics, annotation tools and dataset creation in a contemporary voice AI environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related field required.
• 2+ years professional experience in linguistic analysis, speech science, language documentation, dialect research, computational linguistics, or voice AI linguistics projects desired.

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 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.
• Support analysis of Tagalog dialects and accents across prosody and syntax.
• Document linguistic findings to inform dataset quality and model iteration.
• Evaluate linguistic consistency across speaker profiles and contexts.

Skills

Linguistics

Phonetics

Phonology

Speech-Language Pathology

Computational Linguistics

Language Sciences

Dialect Research

Linguistic Annotation

IPA notation

SAMPA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics/Phonetics/Phonology/Speech-Language Pathology/Computational Linguistics/Language Sciences

2+ years professional experience in linguistic analysis, speech science, or voice AI linguistics projects

Tools

IPA notation

SAMPA

Job description

The role emphasizes native Tagalog proficiency, English communication, and experience with phonetics, annotation tools and dataset creation in a contemporary voice AI environment.