{"id":32653,"date":"2020-02-09T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T10:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?p=32653"},"modified":"2020-02-09T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T10:46:25","slug":"job-turkish-linguist-acapela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/job-turkish-linguist-acapela\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Turkish linguist (Acapela)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor in Spanish Linguistics and Spanish Language proficiency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The candidate is a<strong> native Standard Turkish speaker<\/strong> with a training in <strong>linguistics<\/strong> and <strong>phonetics<\/strong>. He\/she will be part of a team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys Text-To-Speech technologies supporting a range of products and services in a large portfolio of languages. With other members of the team, he\/she will participate in the development of a new Standard Turkish voice that will help a large number of people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Job description<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Assist computer scientists in the development of a new Standard Turkish voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Assist computer scientists in the validation of the current Standard Turkish Text-to-Speech system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Checking audio recordings versus text script (word mistakes, erroneous pronunciations&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Validate phonetic lexicons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Phonetic validation of audio recordings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Native Standard Turkish speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Fluent in English or French to communicate with the team<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Curiosity about phonetics and languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Working knowledge of Windows or Linux<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Team player with good interpersonal skills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Mons (Belgium), possibility to work partly from home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Type of contract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fixed-term contract as an employee of Acapela (or consultancy if preferred)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start date<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent Pagel&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acapela Group R&amp;D and Linguistic Resources Manager&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">linguistic@acapela-group.com&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Address: blvd Dolez, 33 B7000 MONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About Acapela Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acapela Group brings together talented people from very different backgrounds and areas of expertise, resulting in a rich cultural and multilingual environment. We work on voices and languages, we look at the whole world and all application fields to help us create authentic and genuine voices that change or simplify people\u2019s daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acapela-group.com\">www.acapela-group.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor in Spanish Linguistics and Spanish Language proficiency Overview The candidate is a native Standard Turkish speaker with a training in linguistics and phonetics. He\/she &hellip; <a title=\"Job: Turkish linguist (Acapela)\" class=\"bnm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/job-turkish-linguist-acapela\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Job: Turkish linguist (Acapela)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs-en","bnm-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32663,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653\/revisions\/32663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}