Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Engineer

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Engineer – (Munich/Paris)

You will be a part of a team that’s responsible for a wide variety of speech-related research and development activities, including acoustic modeling, language modeling and tools development. Our speech recognition research is typically data driven and we are particularly interested in unsupervised techniques to leverage large quantities of data. You should be passionate about creating phenomenal products. This is a long-term contract for an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Engineer based in either Munich or Paris.

As an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Engineer:

• You will work with other members of the R&D team on extending and improving components of our speech understanding based documentation platform
• You can implement experiments using scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, bash) and tools written in C/C++
• You will have experience writing, editing and tuning phonetic pronunciation.
• You will have C1/C2 level in either French (Paris) or German (Munich)
• You will preferably have experience working with standard speech recognition toolkits
• You will preferably experience working on ASR systems in multiple languages
• Experience in data processing technologies for ASR engine, Acoustic Model (AM), Language Model (AM), Inverse-Text Normalization(ITN) would be asset
• You will have a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or B.A degree in Linguistics or M.S. degree/ph.D. with Speech Recognition/Natural Language Understanding.

Keywords:
ASR, Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, NLU, Linguistics, Phonetics