TTS Language Engineer - Intern
Internship Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering
Job description
DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, starting from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it.
As a TTS Language Engineer you will work alongside TTS Language Engineers and Software Developers who are subject matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You are expected to have solid knowledge of linguistics, in particular knowledge of phonetics/phonology. You will be working on a variety of tasks to improve natural language processing of TTS (text-to-speech).
The competitively paid position is based in Cambridge, UK.
Desired profile
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Native speaker of English
- Solid knowledge of phonetics and phonology
- Ability to create and fix phonetic transcriptions
- Knowledge of regular expressions
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Python, Perl)
- Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git)
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools