Omilia
Tech / AI / Software
Phonetician/Linguist(SpanishUS)
“Phonetician / Linguist (Spanish-US) at Omilia. Skills: phoneme inventories, lexicons, audio corpora, phonological analysis, phonetic analysis, language profiles, phoneme map, G2P rules, synthesis pipelines, Praat, ELAN, Audacity, PLS/CMUdict/SSML lexicon formats, Phonetisaurus/Sequitur/neural G2P, Python, shell scripting, TTS text normalization. Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of the American Spanish language. Document language-specific features (prosody, stress, tone, coar”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure the linguistic and phonetic quality of Omilia’s multilingual Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems; Directly influences the naturalness, accuracy, and quality of Omilia’s TTS output, impacting customer experience in global contact center deployments
Industry & Context.
analytical and documentation skills
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
M. Sc. or Ph. D. in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or related field, Proven experience building pronunciation lexicons or G2P systems for TTS or ASR, Deep knowledge of phonological theory, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, Proficiency with IPA and at least one machine-readable phoneme notation system (X-SAMPA, ARPAbet, etc.), Experience with corpus annotation tools (Praat, ELAN, WebAnno, etc.), analytical and documentation skills, Fluency in proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to Omilia’s markets, Praat, ELAN, Audacity, PLS/CMUdict/SSML lexicon formats, Phonetisaurus/Sequitur/neural G2P, basic Python or shell scripting, TTS text normalization
What You'll Do.
Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of the American Spanish language
Document language-specific features (prosody
Produce structured language profiles for TTS model training and evaluation
Define and maintain phoneme map to IPA and TTS-specific conventions
Corpus audits and optimal audio references selections for TTS target voice tuning
Build and maintain pronunciation lexicons
including G2P rules and exceptions
Review and correct machine-generated G2P conduct pronunciation audits
Annotate audio corpora
develop evaluation protocols
and produce error analyses
Define linguistic criteria for TTS corpus selection and design prompts for data collection
Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines
Contribute to internal documentation and participate in research discussions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborates with TTS engineers, data scientists, and ML coordinates with native-speaker reviewers and external annotation pipelines; Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines
Communication Scope
Fluency in proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to Omilia’s markets
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