Subject: Language Specialist German -- Linguistic Engineering Division -- L&H
From: Serge Vanden Bussche <Serge.Vanden.Bussche@lhs.be>
To: elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 09:52:41 +0100



Lernout  &  Hauspie is an international company based in Flanders, Belgium,
developing  various  speech  technologies  since  1987.  Lernout  & Hauspie
develops   technology   for   speech   coding,   speech   recognition   and
text-to-speech,  in  several  languages  and for a wide variety of hardware
platforms.  Lernout  &  Hauspie has over 700 employees worldwide. Lernout &
Hauspie  went  public  on  NASDAQ  in  December 1995, and established joint
ventures in Japan, China and Egypt to extend its international presence and
to expand its product line.

For  the  further  development  of the German text-to-speech system and the
development of dialogue systems, Lernout & Hauspie is currently looking for

                       2 Language Specialists German
                  for the Linguistic Engineering Division
                        located in Ieper (Belgium)

Function:
These persons will work on the development of the text-to-speech system and
the  development  of  dialogues  for German and/or on other projects in the
field  of  natural  language  processing,  speech  recognition  and  speech
synthesis.
He/she will work in a language development group and report to the group or
project manager.

Profile:
¡¤    university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
¡¤    excellent knowledge of German
¡¤    interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
¡¤    at least a basic experience with and interest in computers
¡¤    good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following
areas are considered an asset:
     - speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
     - phonetics
     - computer linguistics
     - natural language processing (NLP)
     - spoken dialog systems
     - computer technology
     - standard software packages
     - programming
     - other languages than the target language
¡¤    ability to work in a team and independently
¡¤    perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
¡¤    good social and communicative abilities
¡¤    fluent in English
¡¤    willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time



If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfil the
required  profile,  we  have  to meet each other. Please send your hardcopy
application and detailed resume to:

                  Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
                  Personnel Department
                  attn. Mr. Patrick Thomas
                  Sint-Krispijnstraat, 7
                  B-8900 Ieper
                  BELGIUM

or send your electronic application and detailled resume to :

To  learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage
.