Job title: Speech Scientist
Location: China (Beijing or Shanghai)
Saybot develops software technology and curricula for learning spoken
english. Since 2005, we have been building software which features
state-of-the-art speech technologies and innovative interactive lessons
to help users practice speaking English. We are currently looking
for talented speech scientists to help strengthen our R&D team and
to develop our next-generation products. Successful candidates would
have proven excellence and good work ethics in academic or industry
context and demonstrated creativity in building speech systems with
revolutionary designs.
Job Requirements:
- MS/PhD degree in speech technology (or related).
- Expertise in at least one of the following areas and basic knowledge of the others:
- acoustic model training,
- speaker adaptation,
- natural language understanding,
- prosody analysis,
- embedded recognizers.
- Excellent programming skills in both object-oriented languages (C++, C# or Java) and scripting (Perl or Python).
- Good knowledge and experience in at least one commonly used recognizer (HTK, Sphinx, Nuance...).
- Excellent communication skills in written and oral English.
- Experience in machine translation is a plus.
- Experience in VoIP integration is a plus.
- Experience in language teaching is a plus.
Contact: Sylvain Chevalier (sylvain@saybot.com)