Speech Linguistic Project Manager - Google Speech Research

Job title:

Speech Linguistic Project Manager

Location:

London, UK

Linguistic Field(s):

• Phonetics/Phonology

• Semantics

• Discourse Analysis

Job description:

The
Speech Team at Google builds technologies to turn spoken input into
machine understandable format, or written text into spoken output. Our
technology is used to enable voice-based interactions in products like
Google Now, Voice Search, Dictation, Speech-to-Speech Translation,
Google Glass, and more.

As
a Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of French, you
will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high data quality
for speech projects in your own language.

You
will be part of a team based in London, managing a team of Data
Evaluators and working on a number of projects towards Speech research:
ASR, TTS, and NLP.

This includes:

• training, managing and overseeing the work of your team

• creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email addresses, numbers

• propose new projects to fulfill research needs for spoken languages around the world

• creating annotation conventions

• evaluating data quality

• providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics

• working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using in-house tools

Job requirements:

• native-level speaker of French (with good command of the standard dialect) and fluent in English

• must have attended elementary school in the country where the language is spoken

• keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of the language’s phonology

• ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in current speech, mobile and online technology

• excellent oral and written communication skills

• good organizational skills

• previous project management and people management experience

• previous experience with speech/NLP-related projects a plus

• advanced degree in Linguistics preferred; experience with Computational Linguistics a plus

• also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming language; previous experience working in a Linux environment

Project duration: 6-11 months (with potential for extension)

**This is not a permanent position but a contract position.**

For
immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in
English (PDF format preferred) with 'Speech Linguistic Project Manager
[French]' in the subject line.

Email Address for applications: DataOpsMan@gmail.com

Contact information: Ara Kim