Job Title: Speech Scientist
Organization: Synchronoss VoiceCare R&D
Office: Bridgewater, NJ preferred
Primary Mission: Overall responsibility for maintaining & improving the speech recognition performance & accuracy of one or more existing VoiceCare solutions, and to create new grammars for new solutions or new functionalities in existing solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Work closely with Product/Project Managers, Architects, Business Analysts, VUI Designers, Software/Systems Engineers, Customers, & Partners to understand and define the product roadmap & requirements for VoiceCare solutions from a speech recognition perspective
End-to-end grammar development and performance of existing & new VoiceCare solutions
Streamlining our existing grammars to maximize and promote reusability and common code
Innovating and improving our continuous application grammar tuning process – especially around Natural Language Grammars & Statistical Language Models
Maintaining, Supporting, Enhancing, & Improving our grammars
Learning to first use all existing Speech Science tools, and then helping to maintain and improve our tools
As a key member of a cross-functional team, monitor, analyze, & tune our VoiceCare products on a regular basis to improve performance against 3 key dimensions:
Application Effectiveness (how well is the application performing against the business objectives, for example, maximizing call-completion-rate)
Caller Experience (how good is the overall caller’s experience in using the application)
Speech Recognition Accuracy (how well does the application understand what the callers are saying)
Identifying, Defining, Improving, and Applying best-practices in grammar design, development, & tuning
Delivering high-quality application/grammar releases to QA and into production with zero or minimal defects
Providing constructive feedback and suggestions for improvements on our products, platforms, tools, & business processes to the appropriate departments
Working professionally, productively, and effectively with all cross-functional team-members both within the company and outside the company (e.g. customers, partners, & vendors)
Staying current on the latest industry trends, technologies, practices, & innovation in speech recognition technology – introducing relevant ideas into the company as appropriate
Representing the company as a Speech Science Subject Matter Expert in customer facing meetings, conferences, trade-shows, & seminars as appropriate
Promoting the company’s brand & presence in the Speech Science community by publishing technical papers and articles as appropriate
Job Requirements:
Minimum: A Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Linguistics, or a related field
Preferred: Masters or PhD
4 to 8 years of direct experience in speech science research and development
Experience in developing large-scale complex grammars with very large vocabulary and/or statistical language models
Experience working with industry-leading Speech Recognition Engines (e.g. Nuance, AT&T, Microsoft, etc.)
Experience working with industry-leading VoiceXML Browsers (e.g. Genesys, Avaya, Nortel, etc.)
Excellent communications skills – written and oral
Willingness to travel as required
Desirable:
experience in the Communications Services Industry
published author in speech science (books, papers, journals, etc.)
Desired Skills and Experience
Key Responsibilities:
Work closely with Product/Project Managers, Architects, Business Analysts, VUI Designers, Software/Systems Engineers, Customers, & Partners to understand and define the product roadmap & requirements for VoiceCare solutions from a speech recognition perspective
End-to-end grammar development and performance of existing & new VoiceCare solutions
Streamlining our existing grammars to maximize and promote reusability and common code
Innovating and improving our continuous application grammar tuning process – especially around Natural Language Grammars & Statistical Language Models
Maintaining, Supporting, Enhancing, & Improving our grammars
Learning to first use all existing Speech Science tools, and then helping to maintain and improve our tools
As a key member of a cross-functional team, monitor, analyze, & tune our VoiceCare products on a regular basis to improve performance against 3 key dimensions:
Application Effectiveness (how well is the application performing against the business objectives, for example, maximizing call-completion-rate)
Caller Experience (how good is the overall caller’s experience in using the application)
Speech Recognition Accuracy (how well does the application understand what the callers are saying)
Identifying, Defining, Improving, and Applying best-practices in grammar design, development, & tuning
Delivering high-quality application/grammar releases to QA and into production with zero or minimal defects
Providing constructive feedback and suggestions for improvements on our products, platforms, tools, & business processes to the appropriate departments
Working professionally, productively, and effectively with all cross-functional team-members both within the company and outside the company (e.g. customers, partners, & vendors)
Staying current on the latest industry trends, technologies, practices, & innovation in speech recognition technology – introducing relevant ideas into the company as appropriate
Representing the company as a Speech Science Subject Matter Expert in customer facing meetings, conferences, trade-shows, & seminars as appropriate
Promoting the company’s brand & presence in the Speech Science community by publishing technical papers and articles as appropriate
About this company
Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ: SNCR) is the mobile innovation leader that provides personal cloud solutions and software-based activation for connected devices across the globe. The company’s proven and scalable technology solutions allow customers to connect, synchronize and activate connected devices and services that empower enterprises and consumers to live in a connected world.
For more information visit us at:
Web: www.synchronoss.com
Blog: http://blog.synchronoss.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/synchronoss
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Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 852476-124202
Division: Applications and Services Engineering
Microsoft is hiring Speech Scientists with outstanding speech technology development skills to develop and advance Microsoft's core speech technology.
As one of Microsoft’s most exciting initiatives, speech recognition is driving the adoption of natural user interfaces as it becomes more accurate and robust, its application becomes more useful - especially for understanding user’s intent in the mobile and entertainment domains. At the foundation are the science and technology that enable the user experiences and power our network services, clients and devices. The Speech Science and Technology Team makes possible voice features in Enterprise, Entertainment and Mobile products and particularly in the voice platform that powers Xbox Kinect voice search and command & control (C&C), Bing voice search, and short message dictation and C&C in Windows Phones. Our group brings together talent in the areas of recognition, synthesis and modeling (machine leaning & classification) to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable speech recognition and speech synthesis across a rich set of scenarios and languages.
We are looking for high achievers with a deep speech R&D background characterized by concrete contributions that have advanced the state of the art of either commercial or academic speech recognition systems. As member of the Speech Science and Technology Team, you will help drive the development of speech recognition core technology and computing infrastructure. We have huge opportunities of research and development on real data sets provided by one of the world’s largest speech data feedback loop.
You must have a track record of thought leadership, leading innovation and creative vision. You are up to the technical & competitive challenges of a fast moving technology impacting many of Microsoft’s key businesses.
Essential attributes and competencies include:
•Excellence in scientific thinking and execution
•Passion for new UI paradigms incorporating speech technologies
•Ability to own and drive experiment definition, investigations, and development and ultimately be responsible for the speech recognition performance of key scenarios that enable the release of new Microsoft products and services.
Additional qualifications for this position include:
•PhD in CS/EE with focus in one or more of acoustic modeling, language modeling, statistical modeling, search, machine Learning, noise robust signal processing, or equivalent experience
•5+ years of Speech R&D in an academic or commercial setting, and software development skills and aptitude for software design and coding
•3+ years of experience in C/C++, large scale computing, and programming with scripting languages.
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About this company
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN HERE!
At Microsoft, we're about helping customers realize their potential. From gamers to governments, moms to mega-corporations, we serve just about every kind of customer, all over the globe.
Many people think Microsoft = software. We do do software-but we also do hardware, services, research, and more. We work on PC operating systems and applications-like Windows and Windows Live. Products for IT professionals and developers-like Windows Server and Visual Studio. Online services such as Bing and MSN. Business solutions like Office and Exchange. And devices like Xbox, keyboards, webcams, and mice. We're passionate about what we do.
What this means if you come to work here is opportunity-to do things that make a real difference in millions, even billions, of lives. To reach your potential. So why not take a closer look at Microsoft? We think you'll find that amazing things really do happen here.
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The Media Group is responsible for the development of our cutting-edge internet telephony (VoIP) and media processing components. We are working on some exciting new product features related to speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech analytics.
If you are self-motivated, driven, and have a perfectionist streak, we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking for an individual with the skills to do phonological analysis on a language and integrate it into speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing engines. The ability to create and fine-tune pronunciation dictionaries for transcribing large datasets is highly desirable.
Qualifications we look for:
Strong background in phonology and computational linguistics
Proficient in phonology and linguistics of multiple languages
Experienced in development of language resources for speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies in several languages including English
Strong understanding of fundamentals in acoustic phonetics – proven ability to learn the nuances of languages that you do not speak
Proficient in the International Phonetic Alphabet for transcription of dictionaries
In depth understanding of morphology and syntax of English and at least one other language
Proven experience in understanding of processes and heuristics involved in automating linguistic tasks such as stress prediction, prosody prediction and syllabification
Masters or Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Phonology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or related field
Qualifications that would be a plus:
Experience with designing and executing large-scale data collection efforts for multiple languages
2+ years of experience with speech recognition, text-to-speech, or natural language processing
2+ years of experience with data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning techniques
This position is not eligible for H-1B or any other kind of temporary or permanent sponsorship for work authorization by Interactive Intelligence. Therefore, if you will require sponsorship from us for work authorization now or in the future, we cannot consider your application at this time.
To all recruitment agencies: Interactive Intelligence, Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Interactive Intelligence, Inc. employees or any other company location. Interactive Intelligence, Inc. is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.
The Media Group is responsible for the development of our cutting-edge internet telephony (VoIP) and media processing components. The Group is working on some exciting new product features related to speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech analytics.
About this company
Call center software is what other vendors offer. With the unified IP business communications offering from Interactive Intelligence, your business gets complete solutions. A complete contact center platform for multichannel interactions, offered with a choice of deployment models – as a cloud-based service, on-premise, or a managed service where we do it all. IP telephony that extends scalable, application-rich IP PBX and messaging functionality throughout the enterprise. Business process automation to automate multi-step people-centric processes, and document management solutions to handle even the most extensive information volumes. Our industry solutions are complete and tailored with expertise in accounts receivable management, financial institutions, government agencies, the insurance industry, and outsourcers.
For your contact center, your enterprise and your remote and mobile workforce, our SIP-based all-in-one IP platform unifies communications as well as your business. It provides an alternative to the complexity of hardware-centric, multipoint systems. With a single integrated platform, you get ACD and multichannel queuing, IP PBX capability, screen and call recording, predictive dialing, voice mail and unified
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Play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction. Contribute to a product that is redefining mobile computing. Create groundbreaking technology for large scale systems, spoken language, big data, and artificial intelligence. And work with the people who created the intelligent assistant that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking. Join the Siri team at Apple.
The Siri Speech team is looking for exceptionally skilled engineers to work on the core speech recognition technologies underlying Siri.
Key Qualifications
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written
Exceptional programming skills in at least C or C ; polyglots preferred
Prior experience building distributed systems
Description
Siri has become one of the most used speech products in the world while revolutionizing how people interact with mobile devices. The Siri Speech team is looking for a full-stack engineer to work on automatic speech recognition for Siri. To succeed in this role, you must be a strong programmer and a creative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment, working across teams and organizations. You love building distributed systems at massive scale, tackling impossible problems, and you have a passion for customer experience. You enjoy learning new things and creating life-changing products.
You possess strong analytical skills and an interest in speech recognition, machine learning, or working with big data. You have deep technical capabilities and strong communication skills. You're fascinated by the hard problems that come with building Internet-scale cloud services. You enjoy learning new things and creating life-changing products as part of a small, talented team of researchers and engineers building services that scale to support hundreds of millions of iOS devices all over the world.
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Additional Requirements
Experience with ASR systems in multiple programming languages
Familiarity with speech recognition toolkits (HTK, Attila, Kaldi, SRILM, OpenFST, etc.)
Interest in machine learning and natural language processing
About this company
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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Technology differentiation is important to Honeywell. Our teams utilize advanced research in speech recognition to create leading edge technologies.
The Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) Lab is an enterprise focused on sensors, wireless, and speech technology developments which are leveraged across Honeywell’s ACS businesses to develop next generation products.
At Honeywell, we look for people driven by a desire to be challenged, contribute and grow. Our people make Honeywell a special company and are a key competitive advantage.
We are currently looking for a Speech Applications Architect to be a thought leader and engage in research, design, and development of technologies for speech recognition.
What are we doing? http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130919-904989.html?mod=crnews
What's it look like? http://www.multivu.com/mnr/63429-honeywell-first-voice-activated-cloud-connected-thermostat-diy-homeowners
If you are well-versed in Nuance, Microsoft TellMe, AT&T Watson, CMU Sphinx, or similar, and have an understanding of speech recognition algorithms and Natural Language Processing, we’d love to talk with you!
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Basic Qualifications - Years of Experience:
10 years
Scope of Responsibility/Expectation:
Motorola is seeking a person with ability to develop speech recognition solutions/algorithms for mobile platforms with solid programming skills, experience with mobile/embedded systems and interest in deploying industry-leading speech technology.
Software programming
Implements speech recognition, synthesis, and voice processing algorithms and related software on hardware platforms
Evaluates hardware platforms for feasibility of implementing Speech technologies.
"Ports" existing technology software to various platforms including DSPs.
Develops and maintains tools to support the application of Speech technologies.
Defines and implements simulations and scripts for validating, evaluating, and improving the performance of Motorola’s Speech technologies.
Technology Algorithms
Learns and understands existing proprietary voice algorithms in depth.
Collaborates with the speech technologists on algorithm development and improvement of speech recognition, synthesis, and voice processing algorithms.
Specific Knowledge/Skills:
Broad and deep experience in signal processing for speech.
Solid knowledge of analytic techniques, statistics, mathematical modeling.
Proficiency in assembly language and embedded "C", demonstrated by a past primary programming role in one or more fully-released products.
Proven ability to work creatively in small teams and solo; equally adept at high-level algorithmic software design and low-level code optimization.
Ability to develop software from existing code, detailed specification, or general conceptual outline.
Experience with inter-process communications, message passing/queuing.
Good oral and written communication skills, ability to exchange and debate complex technical concepts.
Familiarity with embedded systems hardware, ADCs, DACs, ability to read schematics.
Preferred:
Five years programming experience within a product development environment.
In-depth knowledge of multiple hardware platforms, especially DSPs.
Experience with Perl, Tcl/TK, or similar scripting languages.
Experience with Git or other revision control system.
Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices.
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Job Category: Legal & Corporate Affairs
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 857407-129334
Division: Legal & Corporate Affairs
What is multimedia? Streaming media, codecs, speech and natural language processing, image processing, conferencing, and more. Multimedia is ever-present - images and video on speech enabled phones, computer/camera combinations to enable conferencing, and movies and more delivered to games consoles. Multimedia in a legal group? Yes! We are looking for multimedia experts to join our patent team to help us evaluate deeply technical patents and help us shape the direction of this portion of Microsoft’s patent portfolio.
The Innovation and Intellectual Property Group’s (IIPG) Patent team is an interdisciplinary team responsible for creating, maintaining, and executing Microsoft’s patent strategy. We are attorneys and engineers and legal specialists who work together to develop this key element of Microsoft’s strategy - patents.
We are looking for several individuals who combine a deep knowledge of some technical area of multimedia with an interest in learning about intellectual property. It is a plus if you have the ability to understand technology markets so you can anticipate the trends driving them. In this role you will work closely with licensing executives, engineers in Microsoft’s various businesses, and patent prosecution and litigation attorneys in support of Microsoft’s patent development, licensing programs, litigation efforts and acquisition efforts. Exemplary responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:
- Researching technology areas, including working with Microsoft engineering teams, to identify critical areas of technology that the will be important to Microsoft in the near future
- Identifying and analyzing patents in Microsoft’s portfolio that may be relevant to technologies that are being deployed widely
- Reviewing patent applications during key points during the patent lifecycle and providing detailed guidance on prosecution, international filing decisions, continuations, abandonments, etc.
- Reviewing potential ideas and providing input on which ones should be patented
- Identifying, analyzing and making recommendations on patent portfolios that IPG is evaluating for acquisition to verify its condition and to inform its potential value
- Evaluating 3rd party patents, when necessary, in support of licensing negotiations or litigation, including assisting with developing strategy and representing Microsoft in patent licensing negotiations, if necessary
- Managing and reviewing work product of external vendors that provide portfolio analysis and patent mapping services
- Contributing to the IPG’s strategy development process by applying your technical proficiency and creative problem solving skills to recognize market trends, opportunities and threats.
Desired qualifications:
10+ year’s work experience and/or research in at least one of the following technical areas. This experience can be education, work experience, or a combination of the two, but must be at a technologically deep level. Experience working with multimedia in the devices and services space is a plus, as is knowledge of media services exposed by cloud computing systems. Ideally, an understanding of the current state of the technology in use by all major players in the industry.
o Audio and/or Video Codecs: Information theory and data compression. Strong knowledge of at least one current high definition video codec such as H.264/HEVC, VP8/9 or audio codec such as Vorbis, Opus, Siren. Deep understanding or direct experience implementing multimedia data compression and decompression algorithms.
o Speech: Statistically-based trained and untrained speech recognition systems, ideally with modern conversational understanding systems. Strong technical understanding of deep neural networks or hidden Markov models and the underlying science behind them. Speech recognition engines, speech-enabled applications, or speech recognition services/APIs exposed by cloud computing systems.
o Image processing: All aspects of image processing from acquisition and compression to processing and error/image correction.
o Streaming media. Experience with development of the technologies underlying playlists, trick play, time shifting, media player. Conferencing systems including speaking person recognition,
A degree in computer science, computer or electrical engineering or physics or significant work experience in software or hardware development
Experience in patent analysis and/or supporting patent licensing activities is desirable but not required
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex situations to diverse audiences
Demonstrated outstanding written and verbal communication
Demonstrated advanced knowledge of Excel, proficiency in PowerPoint and ability to ramp quickly on a variety of analytical patent tools
Demonstrated ability to partner on projects with others, working across the IP organizations
This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group. Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
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About this company
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN HERE!
At Microsoft, we're about helping customers realize their potential. From gamers to governments, moms to mega-corporations, we serve just about every kind of customer, all over the globe.
Many people think Microsoft = software. We do do software-but we also do hardware, services, research, and more. We work on PC operating systems and applications-like Windows and Windows Live. Products for IT professionals and developers-like Windows Server and Visual Studio. Online services such as Bing and MSN. Business solutions like Office and Exchange. And devices like Xbox, keyboards, webcams, and mice. We're passionate about what we do.
What this means if you come to work here is opportunity-to do things that make a real difference in millions, even billions, of lives. To reach your potential. So why not take a closer look at Microsoft? We think you'll find that amazing things really do happen here.
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Basic Qualifications - Years of Experience: 10 years
Scope of Responsibility/Expectation:
Seeking Computational Linguist with interest in speech user interface technology. Must be able to juggle multiple projects and priorities, and be very organized with strong attention to detail. Must be a fast learner interested in phonetics, phonology and technical concepts.
- Develop, tune and test speaker-independent recognition sets and speech prompts.
- Recruit and record participants for tuning and testing of speech recognition sets.
- Recruit participants for QA testing of tuned recognition sets.
- Review recognition vocabulary lexical properties and menu structure for optimal product performance.
- Provide guidance on dialogue design and recognition set makeup for optimal speech recognition success rate.
Specific Knowledge/Skills:
- B.A./B.S. in Linguistics required; M.A in computational Linguistics preferred or comparable experience.
- Job experience with demonstrated focus in computational linguistics required.
- Excellent understanding of phonological and phonetic concepts required.
- Ability to interpret spectrograms and transcribe in IPA required.
- Computer literate (Windows, DOS) and experience with Microsoft applications required.
- Experience using tools such as Audition, Peak, Sound Forge, or Praat preferred.
- Experience with Linux, Cygwin, C/C , Tcl preferred.
- Knowledge of WorldBet or SAMPA preferred.
- Working knowledge of multiple foreign languages preferred.
- Some knowledge of speech recognition algorithms and/or natural language processing (NLP) a plus.
About this company
Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices.
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Play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction. Contribute to a product that is redefining mobile computing. Create groundbreaking technology for large scale systems, spoken language, big data, and artificial intelligence. And work with the people who created the intelligent assistant that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking. Join the Siri Speech team at Apple.
The Siri team is looking for exceptionally skilled and creative Engineers eager to get involved in hands-on work improving the Siri experience.
Key Qualifications
Experience building and tuning large vocabulary speech recognition systems
Ability to implement experiments using scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, bash) and tools written in C/C
Experience working with standard speech recognition toolkits (such as HTK, Attila, Kaldi, SRILM, OpenFST or equivalent proprietary systems) is preferred
Experience working on ASR systems in multiple languages is preferred
Large scale data analysis experience using distributed clusters (e.g. MapReduce) is preferred
Description
You will be a part of a team that's responsible for a wide variety of speech-related research and development activities, including acoustic modeling, language modeling and tools development. Our speech recognition research is typically data driven and we are particularly interested in unsupervised techniques to leverage large quantities of data. You should be passionate about creating phenomenal products.
Because you'll be working closely with engineers from a number of other teams at Apple, you’ll need to be a team player who thrives in a fast paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.
Education
M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related fiel
About this company
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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Basic Qualifications - Years of Experience:
10 years
Scope of Responsibility/Expectation:
Seeking technologist with strong background in speech recognition
Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team
Driving research and development to improve quality of acoustic modeling within limitations of wide-ranging systems, from very small to very large footprints and in noisy environments
Identifying and transferring new and existing technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors, memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
Specific Knowledge/Skills:
Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred
Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
Strong knowledge of C required.
Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.
About this company
Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices.
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Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Conducting experiments to assess the quality of language models and study the effect of language modeling variants and ancillary natural language processing technology (such as auto-punctuation) on speech recognition accuracy.
Collecting, cleaning, processing and conditioning training data.
Analyzing field data in order to identify areas of possible improvement or enhancement of language modeling process, method, and NLP techniques.
Implementation of improved training recipes and NLP prototypes utilizing programming skills in C/C++, Perl, and Python.
Discussing and presenting ideas and results within the team, reporting progress on a regular basis
Location can be any of the follwoing: Burlington USA, Aachen Germany or Montreal Canada
Desired Skills and Experience
Background in speech technology, statistical machine translation or natural language processing
Solid programming skills (C/C++, Python)
Experience using Unix/Linux and shell scripting
Solid written and oral communication skills (English)
Preferred Skills:
Explicit (industry or academic) experience with large vocabulary speech recognition
Expertise in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, statistical modeling, numerical optimization, data mining, algorithm design, software engineering, computational linguistics
Education:
Advanced degree (Master or PhD) in computer science, computational linguistics, applied mathematics, or a related field
Education: M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or related areas
About this company
Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
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Note: This role can also be located in Seattle, WA; Montreal, Canada; Achen, German; and Sunnyvale, CA.
Overview:
Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Develop acoustic models for a variety of languages for mobility projects, both for direct to consumer and for specific customer deployments.
Build acoustic models for multiple international languages to meet product accuracy and speed requirement
• Evaluate and develop different acoustic modeling techniques to optimize the training process for different languages
• Address language specific issues for different languages to optimize acoustic modeling strategy
• Diagnose field problems, optimize recognition accuracy for important customers
• Improve training and testing environment to increase the efficiency of language development process
• Document language development process and ensure reproducibility of delivered models
In co-ordination with other groups in the company, collect, organize and process speech data, optimize lexicon for product languages
Desired Skills and Experience
Qualifications:
• Ph.D. or M.S., computer science with specialty in speech recognition
• good analytical and diagnostic skills, quick learning
• desire and ability to be a team player
• experience in UNIX environment and strong in scripting languages such as Perl and Python
• Knowledge of multiple languages is a strong plus
• previous experience in speech recognition is a plus
4 years experience or equivalent.
About this company
Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.
