Job Title: Linguist II

Location: Redmond

Duration: 6 Month(s)

Pay Range : $45/hr – $50/hr on W2

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

Tamil Language
Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems
Phonetics/phonology, including experience with transcription in IPA or SAMPA -OR- experience with regexes

Good to have skills:

Python
Data analysis

Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects:

Core responsibilities of TTS:
Build and improve TTS models (speech generation) to sound more natural, expressive, and robust, including things like prosody and non-verbal cues (e.g., laughter/breath)
Multilingual + i18n support: expand language coverage and handle tricky cases like code-switching, accents, and language ID
Deploy/integrate models into products (sometimes including on-device inference constraints for wearables)
Evaluation + quality measurement: develop pipelines/guidelines to measure naturalness and expressivity
Native speaker expertise for new TTS locales

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:

Varied tasks, lots of opportunities to leverage native speaker insights for linguistic applications
This role allows a lot of freedom to affect the voice quality for users in their native language to ensure they have the best possible user experience

Typical Day in the Role:

Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.

Provide native speaker input and feedback on product quality

Develop and/or evaluate large-scale labeled datasets for varying NLP applications such as language ID, text normalization, G2P, and audio alignments

Create and perfect text normalization processes.

Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.

Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more. Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

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