American Linguist required

Voxygen SAS, a young and innovative company, is looking for an
American English language Linguist to work in one of its
Text-to-Speech projects.

Voxygen develops speech synthesis products and services for World-wide
markets, with a particular focus on the creation of expressive voices
for industrial and entertainement purposes. For more information on
the company, please visit: www.voxygen.fr

Job description:

- Validation of sentences correctness for script creation:
verification of orthography, grammar, readability and phonetic
transcription.

- Participate in the voice-talent casting.

- Assist company experts with native language expertise during script
  recording sessions.

- Revision of automatic phonetization and segmentation of recorded
  script sentences.

Job Requirements:
- Fluent in spoken American English.

- Thorough knowledge of the language grammar and orthography.

- Keen ear for phonetic nuances.

- Degree in applied linguistics

- Attention to detail.

- Keen interest for language and technology.

- Knowledge of the target language phonetics or previous experience
  with TTS will be a definiteplus.

This is a temporary position for 6 months (up to 12 months). 

The job will be located in RENNES Brittany, France. 

Starting date as soon as possible in 2013.  

This is a great opportunity to participate in an exciting
state-of-the-art project and to collaborate with world-class experts
in the field of TTS.

If this sounds interesting to you, please send us your CV to:
brigitte.ororke@voxygen.fr