Speech Recognition Researcher
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Available: Immediately
About M*Modal:
M*Modal is a fast-moving speech technology and natural language understanding company, focused
on making health care technology work better for the physicians and hospitals who depend on it
every day. From speech-enabled interfaces and imaging solutions to computer-assisted physician
documentation and natural language analytics, M*Modal is changing what technology can do in
healthcare.
Position Summary:
The prospective candidate should have a working knowledge of both Speech Recognition and
Computer Algorithms and be able to learn about new technologies from original publications.
As a member of our Speech R&D team composed of Software Engineers and Speech Recognition
Researchers, you will help define the algorithms and architecture used in our next generation of
products.
Essential Functions:
The incumbent will be expected to use his/her programming skills to work with our team on
research, technology development, and applications in speech recognition.
We offer work with:
- Systems that make a real difference in the lives of patients and doctors
- Language models, Acoustic models, Front-ends, decoders, etc, based on our own state-ofthe-art modular recognition toolkit
- Training data per speaker varying from seconds to hundreds of hours – both transcribed
and unsupervised.
Qualifications:
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- Top-level awareness of all aspects of large vocabulary speech recognition
- In-depth understanding of several components of state-of-the-art speech recognition
- C++, Java, Perl, or Python programming
- Experience with both Linux and Windows
- Experience participating in large software development projects.
- Experience with large-scale LVCSR projects or evaluations is a definite plus
- Enthusiasm to work directly on a real production system
If you want to be part of a thriving, innovative organization that fosters great talent, please
submit your resume and salary requirements by email to anthony.bucci@mmodal.com.
Language Developer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Available: Immediately
About Us:
M*Modal is a fast-moving speech technology and natural language understanding company,
focused on making health care technology work better for the physicians and hospitals who
depend on it every day. From speech-enabled interfaces and imaging solutions to
computer-assisted physician documentation and natural language analytics, M*Modal is
changing what technology can do in healthcare.
Position Summary:
The prospective candidate would help to improve our speech recognition systems based on
our own state-of-the-art recognizer toolkit. This involves processing text for building
language models for different applications, experimenting with different types of language
models, training locale-optimized acoustic models, improving pronunciation dictionaries,
and testing, tuning and troubleshooting speech recognition systems. As we work with very
large amounts of data, data processing is run across a Linux cluster.
Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related field
- Background in related specialty, such as linguistics, machine learning or statistics
- Programming skills, such as Java or Python
- Working knowledge of Linux and Windows environments
- Working knowledge of regular expressions
- Prior experience with automatic speech recognition systems is of course a plus
If you want to be part of a thriving, innovative organization that fosters great talent, please
submit your resume and salary requirements by email to anthony.bucci@mmodal.com.