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Language Specialist (Linguistic)- Kannada (Voice AI)
Job Level Expectations
Job Track - Professional
Job Level - P1
Experience - Typically requires a Bachelor s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
Scope - Works within a team/function
Autonomy - Contributes to team-specific projects. Receives regular guidance and check-ins.
Job Description
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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
Job-Specific Core Skills - Level (Beginner | Intermediate | Senior | Expert)
Linguistics - Intermediate +
Phonetics - Beginner +
Phonology - Beginner +
Kannada - Expert
Technical Skills - Beginner +
Project Management Skills - Beginner +
Qualifications
Stand
Amelia is a true meritocracy. Each employee s contribution is essential to our overall success, and those who work hard reap the rewards of their efforts. We believe in developing talent and promoting from within. Many of our managers and senior staff members started in junior positions.
Our employees are exposed to a wide variety of technologies, and we encourage them to learn new skills. Each day brings different challenges, and our team thrives on the variety and intensity of our workplace. It s a dynamic environment fueled by the energy of our staff.
