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Linguist

Contract: Hillsborough, California, US

Salary Range: 40.00 - 50.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 367996

End Date: 2026-04-05
Days Left: 0 days, 3 hours left

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Job Title: Linguist II (Native in Either Marathi Or Tamil)

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 6 Months (Possible Extension)

The main function of a TTS Linguist is to determine speech data needs and make for data based model and product improvements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills:

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.

Benefit:
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, (paid time , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable)

Job Requirement

• Linguist
• Marathi
• Tamil
• Translator
• Translate
• SAMPA
• ToBI
• IPA

Reach Out to a Recruiter

• Recruiter
• Email
• Phone
• Raushan Kumar
• raushan.lkumar@collabera.com

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Job Tags

Hourly pay, Contract work, Temporary work, Remote work

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