Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

TTS Language Engineer

  • Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)
  • Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Come join us, we build TTS (text-to-speech) voices that help revolutionize the way people interact with devices and services!

As a TTS Language Engineer, you will work alongside other Language Engineers, Software Developers and Speech Scientists who are subject matter experts in speech synthesis and natural language processing.

You are expected to have solid knowledge of linguistics, particular in phonetics and phonology. You will be working with our industry-leading Speech and Language technology to develop and improve TTS voices. Your work will directly impact the experience of our customers, as they interact with voice-first devices and services by Amazon.

The competitively paid position is based in Cambridge, UK.

Position responsibilities:
- Creating natural language rules and test cases for natural language processing modules
- Normalizing textual input through regular expressions
- Formalizing language models through in-depth knowledge of phonetic, phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the target languages
- Partnering with Speech Scientists and Software Developers to develop and maintain Machine Learning and Deep Learning models
- Automating and coordinating the creation of lexicons, phonetic transcriptions and other linguistic data
- Creating solutions to QA and evaluate TTS voices
- Prioritizing and planning work to address customer pain points in their TTS experience

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- High degree of fluency in Hindi
- High degree of fluency in English
- Ability to read and write Devanagari
- Solid knowledge of phonetics and phonology
- Ability to create and fix phonetic transcriptions (e.g. x-sampa, IPA)
- Knowledge of regular expressions
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Python)
- Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git)
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools

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