Omilia is the leading provider of Natural Language Understanding enabled IVR & natural dialogue interaction solutions.
Phonetician, Linguist – Spanish-US
Location
Arizona + 4 moreAll locations: Arizona | California | Florida | New Mexico | Texas
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Phonetician, Linguist – Spanish-US
Omilia - Conversational Intelligence
• Ensure the linguistic and phonetic quality of Omilia’s multilingual Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems by designing phoneme inventories, developing lexicons, and reviewing audio corpora. • Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of the American Spanish language. • 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-specific conventions. • Perform corpus audits and optimal audio references selections for TTS target voice tuning. • Build and maintain pronunciation lexicons, including G2P rules and exceptions. • Review and correct machine-generated G2P outputs; conduct pronunciation audits. • Annotate audio corpora, develop evaluation protocols, and produce error analyses. • Define linguistic criteria for TTS corpus selection and design prompts for data collection. • Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines. • Contribute to internal documentation and participate in research discussions.
Job Requirements
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
- 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 at least one machine-readable phoneme notation system (X-SAMPA, ARPAbet, etc.).
- Experience with corpus annotation tools (Praat, ELAN, WebAnno, etc.).
- Strong analytical and documentation skills.
- Fluency in English; proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to Omilia’s markets.
- Technical skills: Praat, ELAN, Audacity, PLS/CMUdict/SSML lexicon formats, Phonetisaurus/Sequitur/neural G2P, basic Python or shell scripting, TTS text normalization.
Benefits
- Fixed compensation;
- Long-term employment with the working days vacation;
- Development in professional growth (courses, training, etc);
- Being part of successful cutting-edge technology products that are making a global impact in the service industry;
- Proficient and fun-to-work-with colleagues;
- Apple gear.
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