Speech-to-text Unit - Post B

The Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) provides the European Parliament with translation services for its written or electronic communication in all official languages of the European Union.

Our mission is:

• To make available in all official languages all documents relating to Parliament’s role as co-legislator and one of the two arms of the budgetary authority, in order to ensure the legitimacy and transparency of the legislative and budgetary process of the European Union;
• To enable the European Parliament to meet its commitment to the policy of multilingualism, designed to ensure the equal treatment of languages and permitting all citizens of the European Union to communicate with the institutions and have access to the documents of those institutions in their own language;
• To support the Members of the European Parliament and its administration in their multilingual communication with citizens by providing high-quality, modern, multilingual services in text, audio and video and ensuring that content is clear and in all the official languages of the EU;
• To ensure that these translation services are supplied as efficiently and effectively as possible.

As a trainee in the Speech-to-Text Unit of the European Parliament, you will have the opportunity to get involved in a project devoted to the integration of speech-to-text technology in the Parliament.

The unit works primarily on the provision of real-time captioning and translation of Parliamentary debates in all official languages. Its objective is ambitious: developing ready-to-use speech-to-text applications in 24 languages inside the most multilingual Parliament in the world.

 You will have a chance to assist unit members in liaising with external contractors implementing the project, co-ordinating the work of internal evaluators and external experts (computational linguists) and communicating with internal and external stakeholders.

As a prospective trainee:

• You have an in-depth knowledge of English and/or French and a very good knowledge of at least one of the other official EU languages;
• You possess strong team-working and communication skills, which will enable you to work as part of a team of the unit;
• You have experience with, or are keen to learn about, natural language processing (automatic speech recognition and machine translation in particular), artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

If you are interested in this offer, please submit a motivation letter summarizing your educational background and your motivation to apply. The motivation letter should not be longer than 600 words.

Please also submit relevant supporting documents (CV, university diplomas, course transcripts, etc.). The motivation letter and the supporting documents are to be uploaded as a single PDF file.