Speech Recognition Consultant

Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create new technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group's diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research centre to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.

Sony Research India is seeking a dynamic and motivated Speech Recognition Consultant to join our innovative research team. As a Consultant, you will work on real-world problems in automatic speech recognition (ASR), focusing on improving noise robustness and minimizing code-switching errors in transcription outputs. You'll gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools and datasets, and contribute to impactful projects alongside experienced researchers and engineers.

Key Responsibility :

• Explore and develop techniques to enhance ASR robustness under noisy, low-resource, and domain-shifted conditions.
• Investigate code-switching errors in end-to-end ASR models (e.g., Whisper, Wav2Vec2, etc.) and propose mitigation strategies.
• Conduct experiments using large-scale speech datasets and evaluate ASR performance across varying noise levels and linguistic diversity.
• Contribute to publications, technical reports, or open-source tools as outcomes of the research.

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Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures and to ensuring that no worker or potential worker will receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.

Skills Required

Pytorch, Python