Phonetics Scientist: Multilingual TTS Lexicon Architect

Omilia; Florida; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed compensation

Paid vacation

Professional development

Apple gear

Job summary

Omilia is seeking a highly skilled Linguistics/Phonetics expert to drive linguistic quality for multilingual TTS. The role focuses on designing phoneme inventories, building pronunciation lexicons, and reviewing audio corpora for enterprise-grade voice experiences.

Collaboration with TTS engineers and native-speaker reviewers is essential for successful integration into synthesis pipelines. The ideal candidate has advanced degrees in linguistics or related fields, extensive experience with

Qualifications

• 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 systems.
• Experience with corpus annotation tools (Praat, ELAN, WebAnno, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of American Spanish.
• 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 conventions.
• Annotate audio corpora, develop evaluation protocols, and produce error analyses.
• Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines.
• Contribute to internal documentation and participate in research discussions.

Skills

English fluency

Phonetics knowledge

Documentation skills

Python basics

Education

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

Tools

Praat

ELAN

Audacity

Phonetisaurus

Sequitur

CMUdict/SSML

Job description

Omilia is seeking a highly skilled Linguistics/Phonetics expert to drive linguistic quality for multilingual TTS. The role focuses on designing phoneme inventories, building pronunciation lexicons, and reviewing audio corpora for enterprise-grade voice experiences.

Collaboration with TTS engineers and native-speaker reviewers is essential for successful integration into synthesis pipelines. The ideal candidate has advanced degrees in linguistics or related fields, extensive experience with