Date: 06 Dec 1999
Time: 10:24:27
Remote Name: 156.29.145.175
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world’s leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice—in any language—with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998.
For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in Ieper (Belgium) for a
Project Manager Farsi Language & Speech Technology
Duties:
You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Farsi
You will coordinate the start-up of the Farsi language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics
You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based both in Ieper and Turkey
You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Farsi and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology
You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached
You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project
You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Turkish and Iranian institutes, organizations, etc.
Required Skills:
Relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics
Experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing
Near-native or native speaker of Farsi and a conversational level of English
Good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,…), other languages
Ability to work in a team and independently
Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
Good social and communicative abilities
Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
Willingness to travel for limited periods of time
Interested? Mail your resume and cover letter to:
Job-Announce@lhs.be Mr.Pierre Eggermont Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Flanders Language Valley 50 B-8900 Ieper
For more info about this or other vacancies please visit our website at http://www.lhsl.com.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Information Pierre Eggermont Job-Announce@lhs.be Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Fax: +32 57 20 84 89