Phonetician / Linguist (Spanish-US)

- Conduct systematic phonological and phonetic analysis of the American Spanish language. - Document language-specific features (prosody, stress, tone, coarticulation, dialect variation). - Produce structured language profiles for TTS model training and evaluation. - Define and maintain phoneme inventories; map to IPA and TTS-specific conventions. - Corpus audits and optimal audio references selections for TTS target voice tuning - Build and maintain pronunciation lexicons, including G2P rules and exceptions. - Review and correct machine-generated G2P outputs; conduct pronunciation audits. - Annotate audio corpora, develop evaluation protocols, and produce error analyses. - Define linguistic criteria for TTS corpus selection and design prompts for data collection. - Collaborate with TTS engineers to integrate linguistic artefacts into synthesis pipelines. - Contribute to internal documentation and participate in research discussions.

- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Linguistics, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, or related field. - Proven experience building pronunciation lexicons or G2P systems for TTS or ASR. - Deep knowledge of phonological theory, articulatory and acoustic phonetics. - Proficiency with IPA and at least one machine-readable phoneme notation system (X-SAMPA, ARPAbet, etc.). - Experience with corpus annotation tools (Praat, ELAN, WebAnno, etc.). - Strong analytical and documentation skills. - Fluency in English; proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to Omilia's markets. - Technical skills: Praat, ELAN, Audacity, PLS/CMUdict/SSML lexicon formats, Phonetisaurus/Sequitur/neural G2P, basic Python or shell scripting, TTS text normalization.