 | Are you the linguist who wants to launch himself into a career with a
leading speech and language technology company?
ScanSoft Inc. is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: SSFT) with offices
around the world. With nearly 1000 employees, we are the
market-leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions that are used
to automate a wide range of manual processes - increasing
productivity, reducing costs and improving customer service.
Scansoft is currently looking for a
Voice Developer – native German (Internship)
Your function will be to create a state-of-the-art voice for use with
the market-leading RealSpeak text-to-speech (TTS) engine. You will
join the team in Gent, Belgium.
Role:
• Design of text corpora for recording and testing
• Selection of voice talents
• Coaching the voice talent
• Processing speech data
• Creating and tuning the TTS voice
• Testing and productization of the TTS voice
Profile:
We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated people who want to learn
about, or increased their knowledge of, speech technology while making
a real contribution to a successful product. In terms of skills, we
are seeking people who can do most – but not necessarily all – of the
following.
• Fluently speak native German
• Have some experience working in speech and/or linguistics or related
fields (we're especially interested if you've studied phonetics)
either in academia or in industry
• Have some computational ability – no programming is required, but
you should be comfortable working with MS Windows
• If you know some awk or Perl, it would be an advantage, but is not
required.
• Are willing to work in Merelbeke (near Gent in Belgium) for the
duration of the contract
Offer:
• A 2 months contract for March/ April 2005
• Training in all aspects of the work, and you will be working with a
talented and committed team.
• An exciting job with an innovative and performing international
company
• The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic, supportive team
• Competitive remuneration package
• Relocation, travel and accommodation assistance.
Are you interested? Please apply to this position via our careers
website at http://www.scansoft.com/careers/ or send an email to
markus.heiselmeier@scansoft.com
Do you have questions? Please call +49 (0)241 8871 150 for further
information.
We are looking forward to receiving your application.
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