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The Speech @ Microsoft Core Internationalization Team develops the language
resources to enable speech recognition (SR) and speech synthesis capabilities on
a worldwide basis. The Speech @ Microsoft Group has been developing and shipping
speech recognition products in multiple languages for servers, mobile devices
and entertainment devices. Our speech products have been included in Kinect,
Bing voice search, WP7, Exchange Server 2010 and several others.
The Speech Core Internationalization Team is now looking for a computational
linguist to improve the scalability of our data acquisition processes and to
create internationalization specifications for speech language assets and
quality assurance guidelines in multiple languages. The position offers great
opportunities for innovation and for working with an international team and
vendor ecosystem.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Identify and implement processes, and/or bring efficiencies and improvements
to existing ones
* Scale text normalization processes.
* Scale prompt creation/sourcing process for data collections
* Scale lexicon, IPA maps and grammar library creation processes
* Meta specification creation for speech vendors
* International specification review
* Quality assurance of acoustic, language and other model components
REQUIREMENTS:
* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
* A positive team-oriented approach
* Passion for speech technologies, quality and Natural User Interface (NUI)
* Agility, creativity, and willingness to work with ambiguity
* Detail oriented
* Problem solving skills
* Thorough understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet or other
phonetic representations
* Ideally, a PhD in Computational Linguistics or similar
* Technical/developer background a plus
* Linguistic familiarity with multiple languages Project management or program
management experience a plus
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