California Licensed Phonetician

Job Summary

To ensure the linguistic and phonetic quality of multilingual Text-to-Speech systems, a California Licensed Phonetician will work remotely on a full-time basis, conducting phonological analysis, designing phoneme inventories, and developing lexicons for American Spanish.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of the American Spanish language
• Produce structured language profiles for TTS model training and evaluation
• Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines

Required Qualifications

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
• Proven experience building pronunciation lexicons or G2P systems for TTS or ASR
• Deep knowledge of phonological theory and articulatory and acoustic phonetics
• Proficiency with IPA and at least one machine-readable phoneme notation system
• Experience with corpus annotation tools such as Praat or ELAN