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Saturday, June 10, 2017 by Chris Wellekens

6-12 (2017-02-22) Language modeling scientist at Siri team at Apple
  

 

Title: Language Modeling Scientist – Siri Speech team at Apple

 

 

 

Job Summary

 

Play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction. Contribute to a product that is redefining mobile computing. Create groundbreaking technology for large scale systems, spoken language, big data, and artificial intelligence.  And work with the people who created the intelligent assistant that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking. Join the Siri Speech team at Apple.

 

 

 

The Siri team is looking for exceptionally skilled and creative Scientists and Engineers eager to get involved in hands-on work improving the Siri experience.

 

 

 

Key Qualifications

 

  • Experience building, testing, and tuning language models for ASR

  • Ability to implement experiments using scripting languages (Python, Perl, bash) and tools written in C/C++

  • Experience working with standard speech recognition toolkits (such as HTK, Attila, Kaldi, SRILM, OpenFST or equivalent proprietary systems)

  • Large scale data analysis experience using distributed clusters (e.g. MapReduce, Spark)

 

 

 

Description

 

The speech team is seeking a research scientist to participate in the language modeling effort for Siri. In order to estimate language model probabilities, you will make use of very large amounts of training text drawn from diverse sources. You will be part of a group that has responsibility for the entire domain of language modeling in multiple languages including, among other things, text processing, data selection, language model adaptation, neural network modeling, improving language model training infrastructure, experimenting with new types of language models etc.

 

 

 

Education

 

PhD or Masters in Computer Science or related field

 

3+ years of experience in language modeling for ASR

 

 

 

Apply online at jobs.apple.com

 

Search for: “Language Modeling Scientist”

 


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