Wade Dowdell

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Intro

Galt, United States

Joined May 14, 2021

Skills

Languages

Welsh

Fluent

Spanish

Advanced

Irish

Basic

German

Basic

About

I am a linguist working in the artificial-intelligence industry since 1991.

Experience

[24]7.ai

Aug 2015 – Aug 2020

San Jose, California

Speech-appications analyst

Transcription of calls to voice-enabled systems, annotation of transcribed calls, spot-checking others' transcriptions, troubleshooting problematic listings in directory-assistance and adjusting dictionary-pronunciation variants.

Telenav

Sep 2011 – Jun 2014

Sunnyvale, California

LInguistic transcriber

Transcription of utterances by users of a voice-activated navigation system.

Foodily

Oct 2010 – Jun 2011

San Mateo, California

Search linguist

Curation of a semantic search engine dedicated to recipes and ingredients.

Tellme/Microsoft

May 2000 – Oct 2010

Mountain View, California

LInguistic transcriber

Transcription of utterances by callers to automated systems.

CTB/McGraw-Hill

Sep 1998 – May 2000

Mather, California

Test evaluator

Evaluating K-12 standardized tests on paper and on screen.

Internal Revenue Service Western Area Distribution Center

Nov 1990 – May 2000

Rancho Cordova, California

Data Transcriber

Data entry from paper order forms into a mainframe computer, mail sorting, order fulfilment, and contacting tax preparers about returned packages.

Apple Computer

Jun 1991 – Sep 1993

Cupertino, California

Linguist

Pronunciation-dictionary curation, testing of text-to-speech system, formulation of speech-to-text rules for regional dialects of Spanish.