Phonetician - Multilingual TTS Lexicon & Audio QA

Omilia; California; Sur place; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

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Résumé du poste

Omilia is seeking a linguistics expert to lead phoneme inventories, lexicons, and pronunciation G2P for multilingual Text-to-Speech systems. You will analyze phonology and corpus data to improve naturalness across languages.

Collaborate with TTS engineers, data scientists, and native speaker reviewers; document language features; build evaluation protocols; contribute to research discussions. Requires advanced degree and strong tooling expertise.

Qualifications

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
• Proven experience building pronunciation lexicons or G2P systems for TTS or ASR.
• Deep knowledge of phonological theory, articulatory and acoustic phonetics.
• Proficiency with IPA and machine-readable phoneme notation (X-SAMPA, ARPAbet).
• Experience with corpus annotation tools (Praat, ELAN, WebAnno).
• Fluency in English; proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to Omilia’s markets.
• Technical skills: Praat, ELAN, Audacity, PLS/CMUdict/SSML lexicon formats, Phonetisaurus/Sequitur/neural G2P, basic Python or shell scripting, TTS text normalization.

Responsabilités

• Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of the American Spanish language.
• Document language-specific features (prosody, stress, tone, coarticulation, dialect variation).
• Produce structured language profiles for TTS model training and evaluation.
• Define and maintain phoneme inventories; map to IPA and TTS-specific conventions.
• Corpus audits and optimal audio references selections for TTS target voice tuning.
• Build and maintain pronunciation lexicons, including G2P rules and exceptions.
• Review and correct machine-generated G2P outputs; conduct pronunciation audits.
• Annotate audio corpora, develop evaluation protocols, and produce error analyses.
• Define linguistic criteria for TTS corpus selection and design prompts for data collection.
• Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines.
• Contribute to internal documentation and participate in research discussions.

Connaissances

Phonological analysis

Phonetics & prosody

G2P systems

Linguistic documentation

Multilingual lexicon design

Formation

M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Linguistics / Phonetics / Computational Linguistics

Outils

Praat

ELAN

Audacity

Phonetisaurus

Sequitur

CMUdict/SSML lexicon formats

Python / shell scripting

Description du poste

Omilia is seeking a linguistics expert to lead phoneme inventories, lexicons, and pronunciation G2P for multilingual Text-to-Speech systems. You will analyze phonology and corpus data to improve naturalness across languages.

Collaborate with TTS engineers, data scientists, and native speaker reviewers; document language features; build evaluation protocols; contribute to research discussions. Requires advanced degree and strong tooling expertise.