VUI Designer/Grammar Architect

Location: Bellevue, WA
Experience: 3+ yrs
Employment Status: Full Time, Permanent

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

Work with one of the most exciting companies in the Northwest while having a significant impact on emerging technology.  Our client is growing strong and is profitable without accepting any VC funding!  Be a part of delivering exciting products to millions of users and have a unique opportunity to be involved with V1.0 products as our client closes in on the final milestones for their first 2 products (more to come!).

The Voice User interface (VUI) Designer works with the application development team and development partners to design and develop state-of-the-art speech recognition and location-based (LBS) applications

Requirements:

• Recommend and implement improvements to applications, design call flows, write prompts and VUI specification documents, develop grammars, coach voice talents, and conduct usability tests. 
• Help determine speech recognition grammars and techniques for products and projects
• Participate in meetings to discuss solutions and new applications.
• Work with our development partners as required on all aspects of application development and maintenance.
• Provide finely tuned phonetic transcriptions
• Write and test speech recognition grammars
• Become an experienced phonetician and speech recognition grammar developer

Required Skills, Education & Experience

• 4-year college or university degree.
• 3+ years of related experience.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Excellent MS Office Skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio a big plus. 
• Significant experience in designing speech voice user interfaces.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in voice user interface design.
• The ability to take ownership of the customer user experience.
• An understanding of branding in the voice environment, including persona and audio logos 
• Proven ability to quantifiably improve application performance.
• Experience with Nuance or other voice application software and grammar development.
• Usable and practical phonetic alphabet knowledge
• Demonstrably comfortable with command line application tools

• Experience with applications used on cellular phones
• Experience in researching and understanding marketing requirements
• Experience in working with GIS related data or LBS applications
• Knowledge of speech recognition software is a plus
• Scripting or programming language experience is a plus