COMING SOON!!! Speech to Speech Translation

Responsibilities:
The qualified candidate would work on all aspects of inline speech to speech translation starting with speech to text transcription working on all aspects of core statistical language modeling for a variety of specialized and general domains, as well as formatting, grapheme to phoneme conversion, and various other natural language processing tasks.
Your responsibilities will include conducting research towards improving speech-to-document transcription accuracy by focusing on document formatting and text processing algorithms and correction-based learning for post processing of speech recognizer output.
• Provide technical leadership in research projects as well as contribute individually
• Provide experimental and theoretical analysis of speech recognition problems
• Formulate new algorithms, create research tools, design and carry out experiments to verify new algorithms
• Work with other members in the team to improve the performance of product and add new product features to meet business requirements
• Optimize accuracy of our speech recognition applications
• Follow developments in speech recognition to keep our research work state-of-the-art
• Patent new algorithms and write scientific papers when appropriate

Qualifications:
• An advanced degree (PhD preferred but not mandatory) in speech recognition, computational linguistics, or a related field.
• A background in speech, mathematics, computer science, and NLP/computational linguistics is highly desirable.
• You should have strong communications skills and be able to work collaboratively with others on the team and elsewhere within the company.
• Strong software skills are required, especially UNIX/Linux, C/C++, and a scripting language such as Perl or Python.
• Experience in a large collaborative working environment is helpful (e.g. version control, distributed computing).
• Explicit (industry or academic) experience with language modeling / NLP for transcription or search is a plus.
• Applicants with a speech recognition background and experience in managing research projects are preferred
• 5+ years experience in research and/or development in a professional environment in one or more of these areas is required:
1. Automatic Speech Recognition
2. Language Modeling
3. Information Retrieval
4. Text Analytics
5. Machine Translation
6. Machine Learning