MUST HAVE:

-This role is onsite must be living in either one of these cities: NY OR Seattle,WA OR Anywhere in the Bay Area, CA

-Must have work experience and knowledge of Coding, scripting, Command line

-Must have work experience using Python and SQL

-Must be native in Brazilian or Portuguese

-Must have work experience Phonology transcription

Description

Job Responsibilities:

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

• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.

• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.

• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.

• 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.

Skills:

• Fluent speaker of Brazilian Portuguese or demonstrated near fluency

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.

• Command line/scripting/coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)

• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.