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Language Specialist, Kannada [Contractor]

Bengaluru, India

SoundHound AI believes every person should be able to interact naturally with the products around them–by simply talking. With a global reach spanning two dozen languages, we build Voice AI products with conversational intelligence for cars, restaurant ordering, and more, allowing our customers to extend their brand in new and meaningful ways.

The Language Specialist validates speech and text language data used to train our ASR models. Additionally, the Language Specialist carries out various tasks that require phonetics and phonology expertise in Kannada. The role establishes the phoneme set and pronunciation rules, which will be used for building the ASR models. The Language Specialist works closely with the Testing team to create valid test phrases for relevant domains. They also provide various sample phrases to help augment our domains' Language Models.

In this role, you will:

  • Assist in gathering and curating the speech and text data for our ASR team

  • Establish phoneme sets and pronunciation rules for the target language

  • Provide test case phrases for our domains

  • Provide artificial training data sets for the Language Models improves domain performance

  • Testing of our systems and analysis of the results.

We would love to hear from you if:

  • Completion of formal language studies, a language degree, or a degree in Linguistics (or equivalent experience)

  • Native-level proficiency in spoken and written Kannada

  • Familiarity with linguistics, phonetics, and phonology

  • Experience as a data evaluator and with training data for machine learning

  • Experience in data curation, data quality, or software QA

  • Experience in Bash, Python, or other programming languages

  • Background in project management/coordination

  • Proficiency with Google Docs, Jira, Confluence

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SoundHound AI strives to be a values-driven company that is supportive of one another, open and honest, undaunted by challenges, nimble and focused, and determined to excel and win. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to who we are as a company. With a mission to build Voice AI for the world, creating a team with global perspectives is critical to our success. Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and culture at https://www.soundhound.com/careers. 

We care deeply about fostering an environment where everyone is supported and can do their best work. SoundHound ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other employment benefits.

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Come join our growing team and bring your unique voice to our mission!

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