Marathi Linguist

PRI Global; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A language technology company is seeking a TTS Linguist in California. The role demands expertise in phonetics and NLP to enhance speech data and product quality, particularly for the Marathi language. Responsibilities include managing transcriptions, conducting evaluation experiments, and improving processes across multiple projects. The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's degree in linguistics or a related field and possesses strong analytical skills. Excellent communication and knowledge in various transcription systems are also essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field required.
• Expertise in phonetics, phonology, and NLP needed.
• Proficiency in transcription and annotation systems like SAMPA, IPA, ToBI.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for project efficiency.
• Create and refine text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions.
• Analyze system metrics and address issues.

Skills

Knowledge of phonetics

Ability to analyze waveforms

Knowledge of prescriptive writing

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge in transcription systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in linguistics

Job description

Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Language requirement for this role: Marathi

Candidates need to be linguists experts, not just native speakers.

Summary

The main function of a TTS Linguist CW is to determine speech data needs and make for data based model and product improvements.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.