Computational Linguist (Czech or Slovenian)

Quick Facts

• Focus: Czech/Slovenian language resources for TTS and ASR
• Responsibilities: build linguistic assets and evaluate speech systems
• Collaboration: work with language experts and engineers

Description

Develop language resources—such as text processing rules, normalization rules, pronunciation dictionaries, and speech databases—for Czech/Slovenian text-to-speech and speech-to-text models. Evaluate Czech/Slovenian TTS and ASR systems and collaborate with an internal team of language experts and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop language resources for TTS and ASR (Czech/Slovenian)
• Evaluate Czech/Slovenian TTS and ASR systems
• Collaborate with language experts and engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Czech/Slovenian Philology, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
• Expertise in Czech/Slovenian grammar
• Good command of English
• Basic text processing skills (regex, handling CSV/TSV files)

Benefits

• Friendly working atmosphere and multidisciplinary, multicultural team
• Wide range of trainings and opportunity to work on multiple projects
• Monthly integration budget
• Possibility to attend local and foreign conferences
• Equipment: PC workstation with two external monitors; OS: Linux or Windows
• Private medical care (family members possible for free), multisport card, life insurance, lunch card
• Partial reimbursement of an English language course
• Discounts (Samsung products, theaters, restaurants) and unlimited free Copernicus Science Center access
• Possibility to test new Samsung products