Speech & Language Innovation Cluster Programme Manager – Job Description
The candidate will work closely with A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) to manage an ETPL-funded programme to develop and integrate I2R’s technologies in speech and language processing for cloud-deployable web services.
The scope of work would include but may not be limited to:
- Manage the Speech & Language Innovation Cluster (SLIC) programme to drive projects under this programme towards the fulfillment of specified technical milestones and commercial outcomes. As a part of project management, the candidate will oversee the project development and technology implementation, and track and control all project phases and activities. This would include the management of manpower, resources, external consultants, vendors and other functions relating to the project.
- Drive and implement a startup business plan and its formation with investors, eco-system partners, and prospective customers.
Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent;
- 8 years of industrial experience in business development, project management or product management in the software industry, preferably in the applications of speech & languages;
- A good understanding of current and future trends of speech and languages technologies;
- Working knowledge of or experience in the application of the following technologies to various verticals is preferred: web services, cloud-based deployment, speech recognition, speech synthesis, voice biometrics, text-based language translation;
- Effective presentation, excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Able to lead a team and possess strong interpersonal skills.
- Relevant enterprise sales and business development track record preferred.
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Human Language Department:
Speech Recognition (ASR): Converts spoken speech to text
Speech2Singing: Converts reading of song lyrics to singing of song lyrics
Voice Biometrics (VB): Using voice profiles as access control
Speech Synthesis (TTS): Converts text into synthesised speech
Text translation (MT): Translates text in one language to another language
Multilingual Chat: Chat application which lets you chat in your own language and the other party receives the chat in his/her own language
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