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THURMAN L. ANTONIO thurmanantonio27 @gmail.com 13207661354 San Ramon, CA Professional Summary Proven advanced speech data specialist and computational linguist, having worked for more than 6 years in a dedicated capacity to innovate the speech and language AI lifecycle. Highly expert in the overlap of acoustic phonetics, phonology and data engineering, having successfully developed large, high quality training corpuses for next generation Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, from unscripted, raw acoustic data. Known for a careful attention to linguistic exactitude, particularly in the extraction and annotation of prosodic, intonational phrase boundaries and subtle morphosyntactic variants in spontaneous spoken American English. Knowledgeable of advanced acoustic analysis software and having very practical experience in using Praat, ADAP, and multi-modal annotation software to perform sub- second segmentation and waveform verification. Familiar with and very good at reading and precisely isolating and naming audio markers, pitch resets, final syllable elongation and overlapping speech; confirming audio-to-text alignment by ear. Skilled in handling the structural difficulties of natural, unscripted dialogs, such as disfluencies, false starts, filled pauses, mimicry, reduced forms, and non-linguistic vocalizations; able to preserve the authenticity of an unscripted, linguistically rich dataset to ensure downstream machine learning mode
I have prior experience annotating text and bounding boxes for computer vision models to improve machine learning accuracy.
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Speech Data Specialist/ Language Consultant
