The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria (FTW) is currently hiring for the following position:

PhD position on speech synthesis, Vienna, Austria.

The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria (FTW) is a dynamic company with an international atmosphere that carries out application-oriented research on communication solutions for different application fields. Our mission is to fill the gap between science and industry, pursuing a challenging research program in collaboration with both academic and industrial partners.

 The successful candidate will work within a 3-year basic research project on acoustic modeling and transformation of language varieties in FTW’s Cognitive Interface group in the area of User Interaction and Communication Economics.

 You can find more information starting with November 9, 2012 on www.ftw.at. Informal inquiries can be made by email to Dr. Michael Pucher (pucher@ftw.at). On more information on our current and past projects in this field please visit https://portal.ftw.at/projects/avds/ and https://portal.ftw.at/projects/vsds/.

 The application closes on 15.12.2011. The earliest possible starting date is 01.2.2012