Linguist

Immediate need for a talented Linguist. This is a 03 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in USA (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:26-07788

Pay Range: $40 - $47/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key 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.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must have skills: - "Linguistics Expertise (Turkish)”, “Text to Speech (TTS)”, “Python", “SQL”
• Core responsibilities of TTS:
• Build and improve TTS models (speech generation) to sound more natural, expressive, and robust, including things like prosody and non-verbal cues (e.g., laughter/breath)
• Multilingual i18n support: expand language coverage and handle tricky cases like code-switching, accents, and language ID
• Deploy/integrate models into products (sometimes including on-device inference constraints for wearables)
• Evaluation quality measurement: develop pipelines/guidelines to measure naturalness and expressivity
• Native speaker expertise for new TTS locales
• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
• Language requirement for this role: Turkish
• Candidates need to be linguists experts, not just native speakers.

Our client is a leading Social Media Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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