English Voice Writer
SDI Media
Culver City, CAThis was removed by the employer on 7/13/2015 10:39:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
The English Voice Writer uses voice recognition technology to create broadcast - quality close captioning for the hearing impaired for a variety of media outlets. To be successful in this role, the incumbent will train voice recognition software to correctly interpret their voice and speech patterns in order to produce accurate, live and offline captions.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
•Create live and offline captions using speech recognition software.
•Re-speak what you hear simultaneously in a way to maximize clarity and content.
•Build a software voice and speech model that detects speech patterns.
•Evaluate and continuously grow your voice writing skills to improve the software's voice interpretation thereby increasing the accuracy of captions output by the system.
•Perform accuracy checks on captioning work to evaluate how well your voice is being interpreted.
•Research current events or other broadcast topics for future captioning work in order to develop familiarity with the terminology and speech patterns used in various programming genres that might be captioned.
•Train the software to interpret new terminology for future captioning work.
•Practice re-speaking various types of broadcasts to continually develop comfort with live broadcast captioning.
•Handle special projects as assigned.
Qualifications and Experience
•Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, English, or certification in court reporting or related field.
•Previous experience working in a live television or radio environment desired.
•Experience with stage acting, singing and/or improv is advantageous.