Phonetician / Linguist (Spanish-US)

About this task

Responsibilities:
- Conduct phonological and phonetic analysis of American Spanish, documenting language-specific features such as prosody, stress, coarticulation, and dialect variation.
- Create structured language profiles and maintain phoneme inventories mapped to IPA and TTS-specific conventions.
- Build and maintain pronunciation lexicons, review machine-generated G2P outputs, and conduct pronunciation audits.
- Audit and annotate audio corpora, develop evaluation protocols, and produce error analyses.
- Define linguistic criteria for corpus selection and collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic resources into synthesis pipelines.

Requirements:
- M.Sc. or Ph. D. in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
- Experience building pronunciation lexicons or G2P systems for TTS or ASR.
- Strong knowledge of phonological theory and articulatory and acoustic phonetics.
- Proficiency with IPA and a machine-readable phoneme notation system; experience with corpus annotation tools.
- Strong analytical and documentation skills. Fluency in English and proficiency in an additional relevant language.