Part-Time Arabic Linguist – AI & TTS

About this task

Responsibilities:
- Research Arabic linguistic structures, focusing on Modern Standard Arabic and Saudi/Gulf dialects, particularly Najdi, and provide guidance for their integration into TTS products.
- Advise the R&D and AI team, translating linguistic requirements into actionable input for engineers.
- Analyze pronunciation data, including grapheme-to-phoneme mappings, diacritization, and lexicons, for Arabic TTS and speech recognition systems.
- Evaluate TTS output for pronunciation accuracy, prosody, dialect authenticity, and naturalness.

Requirements:
- Strong expertise in Saudi Arabic dialects; native or near-native Najdi proficiency is highly preferred.
- Arabic linguistic expertise relevant to speech technology.