Paid Work for Gulf Arabic-speaking Linguist

Ember Van Allen (BA 2004, MA 2006), who works for Sensory, Inc., sends the following announcement:

I’m a linguist working for Sensory, Inc., in Portland, Oregon, and I’m currently modeling Arabic phonology for a speech recognition product. I’m looking for a native speaker of Gulf Arabic (preferably from Saudi Arabia) with a background in linguistics who can work approximately 20 hours (perhaps more) over the next few weeks to two months. The work would primarily be answering my questions about the language, mostly regarding phonology and text normalization, and some amount of review or light phonetic transcription. The speaker would be employed as a paid, temporary contract consultant, with flexible hours. There would be no need to travel, as the consultation would happen predominately by email and occasionally by phone.

To learn more about this opportunity, see the posting outside the department office.