Omilia Natural Language Solutions Ltd
Phonetician / Linguist (fr-CA & en-CA)
Job Description
Role Purpose
Ensure the linguistic and phonetic quality of Omilia’s multilingual Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems by designing phoneme inventories, developing lexicons, and reviewing audio corpora to support enterprise-grade voice experiences.
Accountabilities
- Autonomy: Independently conduct phonological and phonetic analysis, design phoneme inventories, and develop lexicons for multiple languages.
- Scope & Complexity: Responsible for linguistic quality across all supported languages in TTS, including handling underrepresented phenomena and complex language-specific features.
- Impact: Directly influences the naturalness, accuracy, and quality of Omilia’s TTS output, impacting customer experience in global contact center deployments.
- Influence/Mentorship: Collaborates with TTS engineers, data scientists, and ML researchers; coordinates with native‑speaker reviewers and external annotation pipelines.