[Hiring] Egyptian Arabic Linguist @PROLIM Global Corporation

Role Description

• Provide expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Offer native speaker input and feedback on product quality.
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects, including:
  • High-quality label alignments
  • Prosodic classification
  • POS identification and disambiguation
  • Targeted modeling data collection
  • User feedback integration
• Create and refine text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions with associated metadata.
• Develop/evaluate large-scale labeled datasets (language ID, text normalization, G2P, audio alignments).
• Analyze system metrics (user opinion, lexicon coverage, POS tagger performance) and implement remedies for identified issues.

Qualifications

• Native-level fluency in Egyptian Arabic; familiarity with Modern Standard Arabic.
• Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems (e.g., Git).
• Phonetics/phonology expertise with IPA or SAMPA transcription OR regex experience.

Requirements

• Python programming.
• Data analysis and pipeline development.
• Prosody classification, dialectology, sociolinguistics.

Benefits

• Opportunity to directly influence voice quality for Egyptian Arabic users.
• Varied tasks leveraging native speaker insights for cutting-edge linguistic applications.
• Freedom to shape user experience by ensuring natural, expressive, and accurate speech synthesis.