Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses, experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about.

Speech Recognition Specialist

Merelbeke, Belgium Permanent role Response to Craig.Robertson@Nuance.com

Nuance Mobile 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.

As a contributing member of Nuance, you will work within a dynamic team environment to develop, support, market and sell our award-winning software applications. We offer competitive compensation packages and a challenging technical but casual work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team that operates worldwide (Europe, US, APAC). Be a part of our fast growing track of continuing success.

For more information, please see www.nuance.com.

Nuance is an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

As a Speech Recognition specialist at Nuiance you will work with peers from other teams arround  the world to investigate new & best usage of speech recognition for music and/or POI vertical domains. You will be closely working together with our R&D dpt to understand what is and what is not doable with the current limitation of the technology, and help customer's and Nuance internal integration teams to include Nuance technologies into successful products in an efficient way.

Representative tasks will include:

• Investigate new & best usage of our speech recognition technologies for entering a POI (Point of Interest) by voice, considering the platform & technology constraints
• Investigate new & best usage of our speech recognition technologies for accessing music by voice, considering the platform & technology constraints
• Crunch navigation POI data from map providers to build proof of concepts and experiments
• Contribute to research and technology agendas by providing input and improvement requests to our r&d dpt
• Support customer projects integrating ASR technologies for POI and/or music

 Qualifications

• Bachelors or Graduate University degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent / related Technical Degree
• first working experience
• Strong C/C++ programming skills; proven software/system problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English is a must
• Good listener and communicator, who can represent Nuance professional services at the customer’s premises or in written and oral communications with customers.
• Positive 'can-do' attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving results cost-effectively
• Ability and willingness to travel 
• Ability to work independently, including at customer premises, but always as part of the embedded team. 
• Self learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high quality work.

Preferred:

•  Experience with embedded hardware platforms, embedded operating systems, and embedded software development is desirable

•  Experience with Python and SQLite is highly desirable

•  Windows CE or Linux or QNX OS

Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses, experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about.

NLP Processing Engineer

Merelbeke, Belgium Permanent role Response to Craig.Robertson@Nuance.com

Qualifications

Excellent background in statistics, pattern recognition, and/or signal processing

• Expertise in natural language processing, computational linguistics, statistical language modeling, search, and/or machine translation

• Strong programming skills, ideally in Python, Java, and/or C.

• Skills related to text processing, scripting languages, regular expressions

• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English.

• Ability to carry out focused and goal-oriented research and development, ability to assume responsibility for one’s work

• Ability to work in an international team as well as independently in fast-paced environment

• Ability to creatively solve problems while leveraging existing technology with an eye for efficiency.

PhD or equivalent research experience are a strong asset

• Good knowledge of speech recognition theory, acoustics, and/or psychoacoustics

• User interface, human—machine interaction, and dialogue system development experience

• Operational knowledge of languages other than English

MSc, ideally PhD in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or other technical field

Craig Robertson

Recruitment Manager EMEA