The European Voice Technology Development organisation at IBM is responsible for the development of current and future speech technologies (covering speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech understanding). These technologies are used within IBM’s telephony and embedded solution offerings (IBM WebSphere Voice Server, embedded ViaVoice). To strengthen our teams we are looking for university hires or professionals for several temporary and permanent positions as Software Engineers in Speech Technology Processing at IBM German Development.

Please apply through this web-link (http://www-5.ibm.com/employment/de/jobs/e1404.html) or by mail to Dr. Jochen Friedrich (jochen@de.ibm.com) or Dr. Siegfried (Jimmy) Kunzmann (kunzmann@de.ibm.com).

The major tasks in our team are:

·          Development of  newest, advanced speech technologies

·          Development of speech processing technologies for research and product prototypes (Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition, Telephony/Embedded Acoustic Systems, Natural Language Understanding, Speech Synthesis, Multilingual Speech Recognition)

·          Execution of experiments for evaluation and optimisation of recognition accuracy

·          Architecture, design and development of speech technology tools to simplify the training and analysis of speech processing systems

·          Fast and efficient implementation and use of newest speech technologies on different OS platforms based on early findings from IBM Research and/or the scientific community

·          Development of language specific acoustic & linguistic data & parameter sets for various usage scenarios (Desktop, Telephony, Embedded)

·          Adaptation and solving of language problems specifically for European languages

It is of advantage that you have a degree in computer science or electrical engineering as well as profound and applied (algorithmic) knowledge in one or several of the following areas:

·          Pattern recognition

·          Speech processing (recognition, synthesis, natural language understanding dialog system)

·          Multi-dimensional speech signal processing

·          Architecture / system-design / implementation of stochastic algorithms of speech processing systems (HMM, statistical parser)

·          acoustic & linguistic speech processing speech processing

·          broad theoretical and applied knowledge (statistic, acoustic, phonetic, linguistic) in development and research of speech recognition, synthesis and understanding systems

·          PhD or comparable experience preferred

In addition you should have profound, applied knowledge and experience with one/several operating systems (Linux, Windows, cluster) and modern programming languages (C++, XML, scripting languages)

Languages: fluent German & English, more European languages are of benefit.