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Sunday, November 11, 2012 by Chris Wellekens |
Job Description Title: Speech Recognition Scientist Location: Sunnyvale Status: Regular, Full-time, Exempt We are a well-funded start-up with cutting-edge speech recognition with a disruptive technology platform applicable to a variety of markets and environments for spoken dialog interaction. With an exciting mix of evolving speech-enabled products, we offer excellent opportunities for 'rock star' scientists to grow and share in our success. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits and an ultra-creative work environment. We are currently seeking a talented speech recognition scientist to join our hands-on team developing our platform spoken dialog interactions. The ideal candidate has a proven track record for optimizing speech recognition performance. This work includes creating the necessary scripts and tools to experiment with novel algorithms to optimize recognition and natural language understanding throughout all stages of a multi-modal dialog system. Among others, you will be asked to work on statistical language modeling, as well as language model and acoustic model adaptation.
Responsibilities Develop tools and enhance algorithms that facilitate deployment and tuning of spoken dialog systems Analyze speech recognition performance andimplement solutions to provide optimum accuracy Use, improve and create research tools to create, update and optimize language models and speech recognition systems for multiple domains Evaluate and develop different language modeling and rescoring based on machine learning algorithms Document language model development and adaptation process Work with the team to design future product releases
Required Skills & Experience Ph.D. or Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, comp. linguistics, or equivalent Speech and/or language processing background (in research and/or industry) In-depth scripting experience with Python, Perl or similar Ability to own and drive experimental definition, investigations and ultimately be responsible for the speech recognition performance Passion for solving difficult problems Strong planning and communication skills Strong analytical and problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot issues
Pluses: Background in natural language processing, machine learning and/or computational linguistics Programming experience in C/C++ Qualified candidates are encouraged to send your resume and cover letter to swright@fluentialinc.com. Fluential, LLC, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, please visit us online at http://www.fluentialinc.com
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