Primary Location: United States-California-San Francisco Bay Area - Foster City

Description:

Sony PlayStation

® US R&D is looking for an individual who will contribute to voice recognition system and technologies for current and future Sony PlayStation® platforms. The Senior Software Engineer (voice recognition) for the R&D team will contribute to one or more of the following fields:

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Automatic generation of pronunciation and voice recognition grammar for 10+ languages.

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Language modeling (LM) for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR)

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Robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies to various kinds of distortions and variations such as channel and environment distortions, emotional speech, variety of speaking rate and speaking style for multiple languages.

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Acoustic model training and adaptation.

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Keyword spotting and voice search technologies are plus.

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Speech synthesis experience is a plus.

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Improve runtime voice recognition and sample voice applications on PS3 and PlayStation future platforms for many languages.

Qualifications:

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At least 5 years’ experience and solid understanding in voice recognition and digital signal processing technologies.

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At least 5 years’ experience and strong skills in scripting languages and C/C++ programming.

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Experience of multi-lingual speech and language processing is preferred.

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Good written and oral communication skills.

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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, related engineering discipline, or equivalent

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Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent is preferred

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Fresh yet outstanding PhD graduates are also encouraged to apply.