Computational Linguist - Hebrew

M47 Labs is a fast growing Barcelona based tech company with a focus on providing outstanding international quality engineering and data and language analytics services. We may be a newer company, but our deep knowledge and strong industry experience allows us to work with top companies around the world.

We are growing our Computational Linguistics team for several languages to work on a cutting-edge Personal Voice Assistant software used by millions of users worldwide, with one of our major clients. We are looking for someone with native knowledge of Hebrew.

In this temporary project you will be responsible for helping the Voice Assistant to understand and speak your native language, focusing on the phonetics and phonology of NLG and NLU, connecting humans and machines through seamless voice interaction.

About your day-to-day:

• Evaluate, assess and monitor speech data in order to improve software quality and linguistic resources for speech recognition and speech synthesis.
• Create, update, review and correct phonetic transcriptions for speech dictionaries.
• Create and correct data for language modeling.
• Review tests and identify potential fixes.

What is in it for you?

💪🏽Temporary contract with the possibility to extend

🚀 Follow your career ambition with growth opportunities (horizontal and vertical) within the project and on-going trainings

☀️ Office located at the heart of Barcelona

💸 Comprehensive compensation package, including private medical insure coverage and flexible remuneration through Cobee, including meals and transport

🌈 Be part of our diverse communities and enjoy our meet-ups (Women in Tech, LGTBQ+, Wellbeing, City Lifestyle...)

🌍 Great international, inclusive and dynamic work environment (more than 20 nationalities!)

Requirements

This is for you if you have:

• Native speaker fluency in Hebrew.
  
• Excellent knowledge of structural aspects of the language (in particular phonology and phonetics)
• Up-to-date exposure to popular native culture and the ability to use that knowledge to improve the focus of your local market
• Ability to phonetically transcribe speech audio and verify existing phonetic transcriptions accurately through solid understanding of conventional phonetic notation such as IPA, SAMPA or CMU
• Comfortable with tools such as Bash and Grep
• Experience with one or more version control systems with a preference for Git
• Excellent English skills
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and proven ability to manage priorities
• Good organizational and analytical skills
• An academic background in Computational Linguistics, Speech Technologies, Philology, related fields, or equivalent experience.

You will hit the ground running if you have:

• Experience working with large quantities of natural language data, lexical resources, corpora, Natural Language Processing algorithms and tools
• Knowledge of a programming language such as Python, Java, C or C++ 
• Experience in ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and TTS (Text to Speech)
• Experience using OS X or iOS software

*We encourage you to apply if you are native to one of the language and have a strong Linguistic knowledge even if you lack experience on the NLP field as we are open to different levels of seniority*

**M47 Labs not only encourages but is actively working on empowering its diverse and inclusive talent. M47 Labs is committed to ensure a non-discriminative workplace, work life and selection process and such decisions will not be influenced by race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, social and conjugal status, age or other applicable characteristics. M47 Labs prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs.**

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