https://speechtechjobs.com/blog Guides on speech-technology careers, salaries, interviews, tools, and hiring. en-us Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:01:16 +0000 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-10-06 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-10-06 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 12 speech-AI roles hiring the week of October 6, 2026: a principal real-time voice AI lead at Inflection AI at $400-550K base; a new-grad speech research role on ByteDance Seed at $218-388K; speech research at Adobe, Meta wearables and Sesame; real-time voice systems at ASAPP, LILT, Cloaked and Wispr; a remote technical enablement role at Deepgram; plus audio ML at HARMAN and a speech team manager at Motorola Solutions. Weekly Digest https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-29 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-29 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 14 speech-AI roles hiring the week of September 29, 2026: Grok voice-model engineering at xAI up to $450K; two audio and voice roles at Decagon at $200-400K; multimodal audio research at Dolby; real-time conversational AI at Amazon AGI; audio inference at Cohere; speech data and evaluation roles at Innodata; plus applied ASR at ClickUp, Speak, Clera, Qualitate, Assort Health and ALTEN. Weekly Digest https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/icassp-2027 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/icassp-2027 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ICASSP 2027 is 16-21 May 2027 in Toronto. Papers due 23 September 2026, notification 13 January 2027. Acceptance rate, tier, and how it compares to Interspeech. Conferences https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/interspeech-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/interspeech-2026 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Interspeech 2026 is the 27th edition, 28 September to 1 October 2026 at ICC Sydney. Papers closed 25 February. Programme, registration, and the 2027 deadline. Conferences https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-22 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-22 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 10 speech-AI roles hiring the week of September 22, 2026: a TTS research director at Deepgram; audio-to-audio research at Google DeepMind; audio-data research at David AI; speech synthesis at Amazon Prime Video; DSP and codec research at Qualcomm; voice-model serving at Together AI; real-time media work at Cantina; ASR/TTS engineering at Guava; and in-cabin acoustics automation at Ford. Weekly Digest https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-15 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-15 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 9 speech-AI roles hiring the week of September 15, 2026: spatial-audio research at Dolby; voice-agent engineering at Wispr and Retell AI; a speech-analytics pipeline role at Gong; edge deployment and platform work at Deepgram and Speechmatics; plus product and design roles at Descript, Picovoice and Rev. Weekly Digest https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-08 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-08 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 11 speech-AI roles hiring the week of September 8, 2026: generative-audio and speech research at Spotify, Google, Sesame and Rad AI; real-time voice-agent engineering at Decagon, Amazon, NRG, Weave and PolyAI; audio and platform infrastructure at Meta and Speechify. Weekly Digest https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/how-to-hire-a-whisper-engineer-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/how-to-hire-a-whisper-engineer-2026 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to hire for OpenAI Whisper work in 2026: whether you need a person at all, contractor vs in-house vs agency, what to screen for, five interview questions, and where to find candidates. Hiring https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/asru-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/asru-2026 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ASRU runs in odd years, so there is no ASRU 2026. ASRU 2025 was in Honolulu; the next is ASRU 2027. The 2026 IEEE speech workshop is SLT 2026 in Palermo (Dec 13–16). Full 2026 calendar inside. Conferences https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/is-kaldi-still-used-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/is-kaldi-still-used-2026 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Is Kaldi still used in 2026? Yes — but 'Kaldi' now means two things. Where classic Kaldi and next-gen Kaldi (k2, icefall, sherpa) still beat Whisper, and what it means for your career. Technical Guide https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-01 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/who-is-hiring-speech-ai-2026-09-01 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 12 speech-tech roles hiring the week of September 1, 2026: ASR, TTS, voice-agent, embedded and research positions at Deepgram, ElevenLabs, NVIDIA, Otter, Cartesia, Sanas and more. Weekly Digest https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/asr-benchmarks-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/asr-benchmarks-2026 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 LibriSpeech, Common Voice and TED-LIUM word error rates for Whisper Large-v3, Conformer-CTC, Wav2Vec 2.0 and HuBERT, with parameter counts and production notes. https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/gong-vs-chorus-engineer-comparison-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/gong-vs-chorus-engineer-comparison-2026 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Gong vs Chorus for speech and ML engineers in 2026: how the two revenue-intelligence companies differ in structure, product and engineering work — and how to get real compensation numbers before you decide. Careers https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-analytics-interview-questions-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-analytics-interview-questions-2026 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Master your Speech Analytics interview at Gong, Chorus, or CallMiner. 50+ real technical questions covering ASR, Diarization, Sentiment Analysis, and System Design. Interview Prep https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/top-speech-analytics-companies-hiring-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/top-speech-analytics-companies-hiring-2026 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The companies hiring speech and ML engineers for conversation intelligence, contact-center analytics and meeting AI in 2026 — what each builds, the roles they open, and where to apply. Careers https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speaker-diarization-guide-career-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speaker-diarization-guide-career-2026 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Complete guide to speaker diarization technology and careers. Learn how 'who spoke when' systems work, required skills, salaries ($150K-$240K), and companies hiring in 2026. Technical Guide https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/top-companies-hiring-asr-engineers-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/top-companies-hiring-asr-engineers-2026 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Where speech-recognition and speech engineers are hired in 2026: dedicated ASR-API companies, big labs, voice-agent startups and vertical players — what each builds, the roles they open, and where to apply. Careers https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/what-is-kaldi-complete-guide-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/what-is-kaldi-complete-guide-2026 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Kaldi is an open-source C++ speech recognition toolkit. What it does, how it works, whether it still beats Whisper in 2026, and who is hiring Kaldi engineers. Technical Guide https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/whisper-ai-jobs-salary-guide-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/whisper-ai-jobs-salary-guide-2026 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What Whisper engineers earn by level, the skills every posting asks for, and who is hiring, from $95K junior roles to $350K+ at staff and principal. Career Guide https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/kaldi-vs-whisper-vs-wav2vec-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/kaldi-vs-whisper-vs-wav2vec-2026 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Head to head on accuracy, setup cost, deployment and hiring demand, plus which one to learn first depending on whether you want research or production work. https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/remote-speech-recognition-jobs-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/remote-speech-recognition-jobs-2026 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Remote ASR and speech-engineering jobs in 2026: which companies hire remote, how remote pay compares, and how to stand out in applications. https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-recognition-interview-questions-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-recognition-interview-questions-2026 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Thirty-one real speech-recognition interview questions with answers: core concepts, coding, system design, diarization, and production deployment. https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-tech-conferences-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-tech-conferences-2026 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ICASSP, Interspeech, SLT, Odyssey and the speech tracks at NeurIPS and ICML: submission deadlines, dates, locations, and why there is no ASRU in 2026. https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/how-to-break-into-speech-tech-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/how-to-break-into-speech-tech-2026 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The 2026 guide to breaking into speech recognition: the fastest paths in (with and without a PhD), the portfolio projects that land interviews, and where the roles are. https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-recognition-engineer-salary-2026 https://speechtechjobs.com/blog/speech-recognition-engineer-salary-2026 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Complete salary guide for speech recognition engineers in 2026. Real compensation data from FAANG, startups, and enterprise companies. Entry to staff level salaries.