RESEARCH LINGUIST
 
Come join us and build Personal Artificial Intelligence (PAI) -- intelligent 3D avatars that look, sound, and behave like the individual user!
 ObEN is an artificial intelligence company developing a decentralized AI platform for Personal AI (PAI). Founded in 2014, ObEN is a K11, Tencent, Softbank Ventures Korea and HTC Vive X portfolio company.
 
As a Research Linguist, you will collaborate with other scientists who are experts in speech engineering, natural language processing, and computer vision. You will be working on a variety of tasks to improve technologies for speech synthesis, speech recognition, visual speech, and natural language processing. 
 
The tasks include:

● Design material and procedures to collect spoken and written language data;

● Design schemas and label/tag sets to annotate recordings and text with phonetic, prosodic, semantic, and syntactic features;

● Design methods and protocols to ensure the quality of linguistic data and annotations;

● Design perceptual or linguistic tests to evaluate the performance of speech and language systems;

● Contribute to the formalization of speech and language models by offering linguistic knowledge, identifying issues and providing solutions. 
 
Basic qualifications:

● Masters or higher degree in Linguistics or a closely-related field

● Specialization in Phonetics or Phonology

● Native or near-native proficiency in Japanese or Korean

● Ability to use programming scripts
 
Preferred qualifications:

● Knowledge of scripting languages, e.g., Python

● Background in Psychology/Psycholinguistics

● Willingness to accept reprioritization as necessary
 
 
Contact: pierre@oben.com