SoundHound AI believes every person should be able to interact naturally with the products around them–by simply talking. With a global reach spanning two dozen languages, we build Voice AI products with conversational intelligence for cars, restaurant ordering, and more, allowing our customers to extend their brand in new and meaningful ways.
The Language Specialist validates speech and text language data used to train our ASR models. Additionally, the Language Specialist carries out various tasks that require phonetics and phonology expertise in Kannada. The role establishes the phoneme set and pronunciation rules, which will be used for building the ASR models. The Language Specialist works closely with the Testing team to create valid test phrases for relevant domains. They also provide various sample phrases to help augment our domains' Language Models.
Assist in gathering and curating the speech and text data for our ASR team
Establish phoneme sets and pronunciation rules for the target language
Provide test case phrases for our domains
Provide artificial training data sets for the Language Models improves domain performance
Testing of our systems and analysis of the results.
Completion of formal language studies, a language degree, or a degree in Linguistics (or equivalent experience)
Native-level proficiency in spoken and written Kannada
Familiarity with linguistics, phonetics, and phonology
Experience as a data evaluator and with training data for machine learning
Experience in data curation, data quality, or software QA
Experience in Bash, Python, or other programming languages
Background in project management/coordination
Proficiency with Google Docs, Jira, Confluence
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