Automatic Speech Recognition Engineer (ASR) - in Milan (Contract)

A leading technology client based in Milan is searching for Automatic Speech Recognition Engineers to join their expanding team on a contractual basis for an immediate start. The project is due to run until the end of the year, with extension highly likely. 

The ideal candidate will have experience writing, editing and tuning phonetic pronunciations (grapheme-to-phoneme conversion: G2P), and have experience in Data processing technologies for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engines and Acoustic Models (AM) in multiple languages.

The key skills required for the Automatic Speech Recognition Engineer: 

• B.A. / M.Sc. in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, or similar. 
• Fluent in Italian
• Strong skills in functional/high level programming scripting languages e.g. Python / Perl / Ruby / bash and tools written in C/C++
• Experience working with standard speech recognition tool kits and building and tuning large vocabulary speech recognition systems.

Key words: Automatic Speech Recognition / ASR / Automatic Speech Recognition Jobs / Natural Language Processing / NLP / C / C++ / Italian / Computational Linguistics / Speech Processing / Acoustic Models / AM / Language Models / Phonetics / Inverse Text Normalisation / Inverse-Text Normalisation / ITN 

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