Linguist II - Egyptian Arabic Job at SGS Consulting, Remote

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  • SGS Consulting
  • Remote

Job Description

Job 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.
  • 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.

Skills:

  • Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
  • Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
  • Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
  • Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, and ToBI.
  • Native-level fluency in Egyptian Arabic & (Modern Standard Arabic Preferred).
  • Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems.
  • Phonetics/phonology, including experience with transcription in IPA or SAMPA -OR- experience with regexes.
  • Python.
  • Data analysis.

Education/Experience:

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

Job Tags

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