What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linguist position at Pyramid Consulting, Inc?
Immediate need for a talented Linguist. This is a 06 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in USA (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:26-07789
Pay Range: $40 - $47/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
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Job ID:26-07789
Pay Range: $40 - $47/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
- 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.
- Create and perfect text normalization and inverse 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.
- Must have skills: - "Linguistics Expertise (Turkish)”, “Text to Speech (TTS)”, “Python", “SQL”
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
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
- Language requirement for this role: Turkish
- Candidates need to be linguists experts, not just native speakers
Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
By applying to our jobs you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Pyramid Consulting, Inc. and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy [Link available when viewing the job].J2W:CB3
Salary : $40 - $47