Title:  Linguist / Script Writer

Hiring Company: Contact recruiter for more information

Company Description:   None Specified

Application Link: https://jobs.peaktechnical.com/careerportal/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=66148&jb=2

Location: Mountain View, CA, United States

Job Type: Contract

Industry: Communications

Application Deadline:  None specified

Description:      

We are looking for 2 experienced Linguist / Script Writers to our bestselling consumer electronics company! As a script writer you will be upgrading response quality.

Responsibilities Include:

This script writer will mainly do 3 different jobs.

• Research and Suggest every responding scenarios that Voice Interaction UI or Voice Agent will provide to our customers in our Smart TV models
• Write the quality command and response script which have both linguistic attraction and usability
• Command script is a sort of natural language that might user to say to the Voice Agent in the TV.
• (This is some sort of the capability of our Voice UI, so many other personnel in HQ work for this but we need a consultant to pick the recommending expressions for guiding user).
• Response script is what the Voice Agent will actually say to the users.
• (Error informs and suggest alternatives. Backup questions to comprehend user’s intention. Express personality of Voice Agent – I’ll give more information about the persona things later to them).
• Guide the translation to other languages that we have to cover. Managing the translation quality.
• It is better for them to know many languages but not required.
• Precise communication with the translation personnel in HQ or overseas corporation is enough.

Qualifications/Skills:    

• Must have a solid background in socio-linguistic human verbal interaction
• Must have recent experience and strong understandings about Human – Device(computer) interaction as well
• Must be a native English speaker that deeply understands spoken languages in these days
• Must have experience working in a cross-functional team to perform or co-work with user testers for scenario & response verification
• Strongly prefer someone who knows many foreign spoken languages

Better to know Top 12 listed Languages:

• US English
• UK English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish
• Polish
• Dutch
• Russian
• Mandarin(CHN)
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Korean

Better to know top 10 listed Languages:

• Mexican Spanish
• Canadian French
• Danish
• Finnish
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Portuguese
• Australian English
• Mandarin (TPE)
• Cantonese (HK)

How to apply:   Apply via recruiter website.