We are currently recruiting for a French speaking Text- to-Speech Specialist / Computational Linguist (French) for a large Social Media company. The BPO you would be working for is Covalen, an industry pioneer collaborating with organisations worldwide for over 25 years.
The client is a social media platform and networking company that operates on a worldwide level. As a Computational Linguist for Text to Speech project, your role will be to work on improving TTS quality in the language of your expertise.
These experts are needed to:
- Make informed judgements of quality
- Improve aspects of the pipeline (text normalisation, pronunciation prediction)
- Know what we don’t know: (1) preemptively identify problems specific to a new language; (2) design test sets to illustrate these problems, (3) potentially help design solutions to those problems.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Prior to Launch
- Create a regression test for each locale within their language
- Create and maintain a text normalisation test set for their language
- Source and vet datasets used in training of DD TN systems, and/or craft guidelines for external annotation programs used to generate those datasets
- Develop a set of text normalisation rules for their language that guarantees certain accuracy against the test set (the TN rules are written in JavaScript)
- Create and maintain a pronunciation golden set for G2P evaluation'
- Identify/evaluate/solve language-specific pain-points, such as grammatical gender, word stress, segmentation, tone prediction, word case / declension
- Perform targeted data quality checks
- Audio evaluation
After Launch
- Fix all frontend bugs reported for the language via the methods in the Linguist Runbook, maintaining the regression test with each bug
- Continue improving text normalisation
- Ensure each deployment of the voice passes Capability Testing referenced in the Launch Review Process
- Perform ongoing Audio Evaluation
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Ideal candidate is a native or near-native speaker who majored/minored in linguistics, with some computational experience (or deep interest and willingness to learn).
Essential competencies needed for this role are:
- C1/C2 speaker of the market language - French
- Advanced/fluent level of English
- Undergraduate degree in linguistics or similar
- Demonstrated knowledge of International Phonetic Alphabet
- Some command line (Linux/Ubuntu) experience
- Other competencies desirable for the role are:
- Some Python experience preferred
- Some JavaScript experience preferred
COMPENSATION PACKAGE & BENEFITS
- Performance bonus
- Private healthcare
- Pension contribution
- Tax Saver and Bike-to-Work Scheme
- Full training provided with career development opportunities
- Be part of a great, friendly, diverse team
We can consider only applicants eligible to work full-time in Ireland.
Location : Dublin - Remote after training (8 weeks of training onsite in Dublin 18)
Apply today on the link or email to [email protected] with your latest CV.
