Speech Recognition Engineer Permanent

“As a Speech Recognition Engineer at Speechmatics, I work on solving a multitude of problems related to improving the accuracy and delivering new features for a global automatic speech recognition engine. As a member of the speech team, I work across every aspect of speech and implement the latest research in acoustic and language modelling. The team is supportive and also rich in terms of skills and backgrounds. Speechmatics offer progressive and rewarding opportunities in one of the best speech technology companies in the world.”

• André Mansikkaniemi, Speech Recognition Engineer, Speechmatics

Background

Alexa, Siri, Google Home – we don’t have to tell you that speech is playing a bigger role than ever before in technology. But how on earth does speech technology decipher different words, regional accents and actually *understand* you? That’s the problem Speechmatics set out to solve and over the past three years our team have used machine learning and neural networks to push the capabilities of speech recognition technology. Our solutions power subtitling on TV, content discovery for videos, compliance solutions in banks, improve efficiency of meetings, and much more.

Speechmatics is a rapidly growing company with no intention of slowing down. With ambitious growth plans comes great opportunities that are exciting and progressive. You’ll be working with some of the smartest minds in the industry, working on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest machine learning techniques to disrupt the market, providing customers with the best speech technology available, while immersed in a great team and company culture. We’re building a company that truly strives to be world-leading and we’re looking for people who wholeheartedly believe they can be additive to our team, bring new ideas to the table and join us on our journey. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a talented speech engineer to help us build the best speech technology for anybody, anywhere, in any language. You will be part of a team that is working on our core ASR capabilities to improve our speed and accuracy and develop novel features that we can support in all languages. Your work will feed into our ground-breaking framework to support the building of ASR models in every language pack published by the company. You will be responsible for keeping our system the most accurate and useful commercial speech recognition system available.

As you will be joining a small team, you will need to be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on rapidly moving research developments into products. Bringing skills into the team is as important as a can-do attitude. We strongly encourage versatility and knowledge transfer within the team so that we can share efficiently what needs to be done to meet our commitments to the rest of the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and development of improved speed and accuracy across our range of world-leading ASR products and related features
• Delivering the software that provides an easy-to-use feature rich ASR product for our customers
• Enhancing our machine learning framework that robustly builds any language with the best possible performance
• Taking data all the way from its raw form through to a finished model
• Working within a team in an agile environment
• Working closely with other technical teams and Product team to deliver on the company’s technical vision