Tagalog Voice AI Linguist Dialect Specialist

TELUS Digital AI Community; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 558,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

The role requires expertise in Tagalog linguistics, phonetics, and transcription practices, plus strong English communication. You will annotate datasets, document findings, and contribute to performance improvements across TTS and ASR systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a linguistic-related field required.
• 2+ years professional experience in linguistic analysis or voice AI linguistics projects.
• Native-level Tagalog and professional English proficiency required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AI-generated speech for naturalness, pronunciation accuracy, prosodic rhythm, intonation, and emotional register.
• Identify transcription errors and linguistic nuances in ASR outputs.
• Evaluate grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse coherence in speech.
• Provide linguistic feedback for model improvement.
• Document linguistic findings to inform model development.

Skills

Native-level Tagalog

Professional English

Linguistic analysis

Speech science

Dialectology

Phonetics

Annotation tools knowledge

Education

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

Tools

IPA notation tools

SAMPA

Spectrogram analysis software

Job description

The role requires expertise in Tagalog linguistics, phonetics, and transcription practices, plus strong English communication. You will annotate datasets, document findings, and contribute to performance improvements across TTS and ASR systems.