Phonetics & Linguistics Specialist, fr-CA & en-CA TTS

Omilia

United States

Remote

USD 100,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Omilia seeks a linguistics expert to design phoneme inventories and lexicons for multilingual TTS. You will conduct phonological analyses for Canadian English and French, document language-specific features, and build profiles for model training.

Collaborative work with engineers and researchers will shape pronunciation accuracy across deployments. Ideal candidates hold an MSc/PhD in linguistics or related fields, with proven experience in pronunciation lexicons or G2P, fluent English, and

Qualifications

MSc or PhD in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
Proven experience building pronunciation lexicons or G2P systems for TTS or ASR.
Fluency in English; proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to Omilia's markets.

Responsibilities

Conduct phonological and phonetic analyses for Canadian French and Canadian English.
Document language-specific features: prosody, stress, tone, coarticulation, dialect variation.
Produce language profiles for TTS model training and evaluation.
Define and maintain phoneme inventories; map to IPA and TTS conventions.
Annotate audio corpora; develop evaluation protocols; perform error analyses.
Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines.
Contribute to internal documentation and research discussions.