Postdoc position: Articulatory copy synthesis at LORIA (Nancy, France).

One year, start between October and December 2011 at LORIA (Nancy, France). Description The objective is to synthesize speech from dynamic and static articulatory data of the vocal tract. Several kinds of data are available: X-ray films recorded in the eighties, static MRI data of the vocal tract, EMA data (electromagnetography, i.e. positions of sensors glued onto speech articulators acquired at a frame rate of 200 Hz) and ultrasound images of the tongue registered with respect to the speaker’s head. We already built an adaptable articulatory model, which describes the 2D geometry of the vocal tract from the larynx to the lips. The area function of the vocal tract can be derived easily from this model. We thus plan to animate this model from EMA or ultrasound data. The second part of the postdoc deals with the connection between the dynamics of the vocal tract shape provided by the articulatory model and the acoustic simulation. The synthesizer developed by S. Maeda can generate any speech sound, i.e. consonants and vowels, but the difficulty is to pilot the transitions between vowels and consonants relevantly to avoid any spurious artifact. Expected skills Medical imaging, signal processing, acoustics, speech processing Contact: Yves.Laprie@loria.fr

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Aalto University (http://www.aalto.fi/en/) is a new multidisciplinary university, where science and art meet technology and business. The University is located in Espoo and Helsinki in Finland. The new university's ambitious goal is to rank among the top universities in the world in its areas of specialization.

Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering invites applications for:

TENURE TRACK OR TENURED POSITION IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, which can be filled on any level from assistant professor to tenured professor

The tenure track is open to talented individuals who have excellent potential for a scientific career. On the basis of their experience and competence, applicants will be placed on any of the four levels of the tenure track system: Assistant Professor (1), Assistant Professor (2), Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The candidates for the two first-mentioned levels are appointed for a fixed term, while the candidates for Associate Professor positions are appointed either permanently or for a fixed term. Full Professor positions are permanent.

The position is located at the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics (http://spa.tkk.fi/en/index/). The Department puts special emphasis on scientific publications in high-impact journals combined with industrial collaboration within ICT sector. The industrial relevance of the Department’s research is very high and the research groups have close cooperation with several ICT and other high-tech companies.

In this call, the Department is seeking to hire highly qualified individuals for the position. The candidates should provide world class competence in speech and language processing or closely related fields supporting and complementing the present strong focus areas of the Department’s research and teaching. All qualified candidates in the study area are encouraged to apply.

The dead line of the applications is October 31, 2011. Application call and instruction are available here:

http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/jobs/professors/

For additional information, please contact Vice Head of the Department, Professor Paavo Alku (Paavo.Alku@aalto.fi).

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School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland
P.O.Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Tel +358-13-251 7928 (office), Fax +358-13-251 7955

JOENSUU, FINLAND: One postdoctoral researcher and one PhD position in speech technology

University of Eastern Finland (UEF) is a new university merged from the universities of Joensuu and Kuopio, with 15000 students and 2800 employees (http://www.uef.fi/uef/english). School of Computing (SoC) is one of the biggest departments in UEF, with about 120 employees in two campuses. There are three main research directions in the department, (1) intelligent media computing, (2) software engineering and (3) educational technology. The positions announced take place in Joensuu campus, in the Speech and Image Processing Unit (SIPU) research group (http://cs.joensuu.fi/sipu/). Current research topics of the group include speech technology (especially speaker recognition), clustering methods and mobile navigation systems. The SIPU group announces

ONE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AND ONE PHD POSITION IN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY

Both positions are filled in a 4-year Academy of Finland project 'Reliable speaker recognition and modification', starting January 2012. The context of the project is studying interplay of two spoken language technologies, speaker recognition and voice conversion. The main responsibility of the post-doctoral researcher is to establish and improve a state-of-the-art voice conversion framework and to integrate it with speaker recognition methods. In addition to research activities, the postdoc is expected to take part (10% to 20% of time) in supervising PhD and MSc students in related topics. The PhD candidate will work on either voice conversion, speaker recognition or both. There are no teaching duties.

Both candidates are expected to have a degree in spoken language technology, electrical engineering, computer science or closely related field. The candidates should be familiar with Unix/Linux tools and Matlab with excellent skills in signal processing or machine learning. Experience in either synthesis/conversion or recognition methods, participation to technology benchmarks (e.g. NIST evaluations or Blizzard challenge), knowledge of HTK, HTS and C/C++, and industrial experience are considered a plus.

The postdoctoral researcher position is filled for a period of 1 year (with option to extend). The duration of the PhD position is up to 4 years. The salary of the PhD student will be placed on levels 1-4 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research personnel in the Salary System for Finnish Universities (1716 eur to 2359 eur/month before taxes). The salary of the post-doctoral researcher will follow default level 5 (2714 eur/month before taxes). In addition, the appointees will be paid an additional salary component based on their personal performance which can be a maximum of 46.3 per cent of the job requirement component. We will also cover at least one conference participation per year.

The application consisting of the following documents should be sent or delivered to the Registry Office of the University of Eastern Finland. Postal address: Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Kirjaamo, PL 111, 80101 Joensuu or Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Kirjaamo, PL 1627, 70211 Kuopio. Street address: Yliopistokatu 2 (Joensuu) and Yliopistonranta 1 E (Kuopio). Email: kirjaamo@uef.fi. The deadline for applications is Friday November 4, 2011 (at 3.00 pm Finland time). We cannot guarantee that applications sent after the deadline will be taken into account. The application should include at least:

o    A cover letter indicating the position to be applied and free-worded
    application, describing the special qualities of the applicant relevant
    to the applied position.
o    Full curriculum vitae (CV), including the list of publications (if any).
o    Copies of relevant diplomas and transcripts of academic records. The diplomas
    should be in English or Finnish, and the grading system should be described.
o    The names and contact information of at least two referees.

All enquiries related to the positions should be addressed to Dr. Tomi H. Kinnunen, tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi or tomi.kinnunen@uef.fi, Tel. +358 13 251 7963,
www http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/tkinnu/webpage/

This application can also be found at http://www.uef.fi/avoimet-tyopaikat

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RESEARCH and TEACHING POSITIONS for 2011-2012 in Paris
Laboratoire d’excellence “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics: data, methods,
models” (LabEx EFL).

The LabEx EFL is a 10 year project funded by the French Ministry of Higher
Education and Research and relies on a cluster of 13 research teams (by alphabetic order: Alpage,
CRLAO, HTL, Lacito, Lattice, LIPN, Llacan, LLF, LPP-Paris3, LPP-Paris5, LpnCog/MemCog,
MII, and Sedyl, in alphabetical order) from 5 Parisian Universities (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris
Diderot University, Paris Descartes University, Paris 13 University and INALCO ), in partnership with CNRS, INRIA, EPHE,  and IRD.

The project’s aim is to
promote interdisciplinary innovative research between different fields of
theoretical and applied linguistics, with a special focus on empirical
foundations and experimental methods.

For the academic year 2011-2012, we are offering the following positions :

-    International Chair of quantitative and experimental linguistics (invited
professorships)
-    9 Postdoctoral positions in the following fields :
Prosody, Experimental syntax, Experimental semantics Text data mining, Language
typology, History of  computational linguistics
-    2 Engineers in the following fields :
Language resources, Psycholinguistics
-    1 three year PhD stipend  in Experimental semantics (Laboratory Linguistique
formelle, University Paris Diderot)
-    2 Research assistants in Psycholinguistics (Laboratory Psychologie de la
Perception, University Paris Descartes)

Application deadline November 10th 2011
http:// www.labex-efl.org

Another call will be issued for positions to be filled in 2012.

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Université Paris Diderot

Poste de Professeur. Profil : Phonétique expérimentale

Le candidat, qui devra avoir une compétence en phonétique expérimentale (acoustique, articulatoire) ancrera son travail de recherche dans un programme s’articulant à un ou plusieurs autres domaines de la linguistique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique). Un intérêt pour la  prosodie ou pour l’étude linguistique des corpus oraux serait apprécié. Le candidat sera responsable de l’animation de la filière Phonétique Expérimentale de l’UFRL de Paris-Diderot et de l’encadrement des étudiants qui en relèvent.

Enseignement : filières de formation concernées

L3-M1-M2 de sciences du langage Enseignements fondamentaux obligatoires dans tous les cursus spécialités :  - Linguistique théories descriptives- Linguistique informatique- FLE- Phonétique

Activités de Recherche

Le candidat sera responsable de l’animation de la filière Phonétique Expérimentale de l’UFRL de Paris-Diderot et de l’encadrement des étudiants qui en relèvent au sein du laboratoire de phonétique. Il axera sa recherche en phonétique expérimentale dans un programme adossé à un ou plusieurs autres domaines de la linguistique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique).

Equipe ou unité de recherche d’affectation

Le candidat sera rattaché au laboratoire CLILLAC-ARP.

Contact

Philippe Martin : directeur UFR 01 57 27 57 87 philippe.martin@linguist.jussieu.fr

Jeanine Mary : responsable administrative 01 57 27 57 80

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Offre post-doctorale en traitement de la parole.

Avignon, LIA.

Dans le cadre du projet « Reconnaissance de personnes dans des contenus audiovisuels » (PERCOL), financé par l'ANR, le LIA souhaite recruter un chercheur post-doctorant dans le domaine du traitement automatique de la parole. Le thème de recherche principal portera sur l'identification de personnes dans des émissions télévisées, sur la base du signal audio uniquement.
Le projet PERCOL fait partie des trois projets retenus par l'ANR pour participer au défi REPERE (REconnaissance de PERsonnes dans des Emissions audiovisuelles), projet d'évaluations dans le domaine de la reconnaissance multimédia de personnes dans des documents télévisuels.

Dans ce contexte, le projet PERCOL vise à l'élaboration d'un système de reconnaissance de personnes, utilisant différentes modalités présentes dans les émissions télévisées ciblées : audio, image, vidéo et texte (sous-titres incrustés). Les partenaires du projet sont académiques (le LIF [Marseille], le LIA [Avignon] et le LIFL [Lilles]) et industriel (Orange Labs).

Le post-doctorant aura en charge l'amélioration de la plateforme d'identification/suivi de personnes développée au LIA, basée sur le signal audio. Cette plateforme comprend un système de segmentation et de regroupement en locuteurs et un système d'identification de personnes à partir de la segmentation obtenue. Il sera amené à intervenir sur le système de transcription de la parole du LIA et interviendra également dans les travaux sur la fusion multimodale en collaboration avec les autres partenaires du projet.

Le candidat devra posséder une thèse récente en informatique ou en traitement du signal avec une grande expérience en traitement de la parole et/ou en traitement et classification de signaux sonores. Il devra démontrer des connaissances théoriques et pratiques en reconnaissance des formes, classification et approches statistiques.

Le LIA (http://lia.univ-avignon.fr) est une Equipe d'Accueil (EA n° 4128) qui regroupe les enseignants-chercheurs de l’Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (UAPV) relevant de la 27e section du CNU ainsi que les ingénieurs, les doctorants et les stagiaires de MASTER durant la période consacrée à leur travail de recherche. Le post-doctorant rejoindra la thématique langage du laboratoire et travaillera avec les membres de la thématique travaillant sur le projet PERCOL.

Le poste, d'une durée de 12 mois, éventuellement prolongée de 12 mois, est à pourvoir à partir du 1e janvier 2012. La rémunération est comprise entre 2000 et 2200 euros nets par mois, suivant l'expérience du candidat.

Merci de contacter Corinne Fredouille (corinne.fredouille@univ-avignon.fr) si vous souhaitez plus de précisions ou pour postuler en envoyant un CV étendu.

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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

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Applications are invited for an anticipated postdoctoral position at Northwestern University in the area of computational modeling of the lexicon in many different languages. The postdoctoral fellow will work with  linguistics professor Janet Pierrehumbert as a member of an  interdisciplinary team that  includes outstanding computer scientists and electrical engineers at four other American research institutions.  The Northwestern component of the collaborative project will focus on novel methods for bootstrapping lexical networks from sparse statistical samples. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D in computational linguistics, EECS, applied mathematics, or physics, and the demonstrated ability to create and document robust software. Familiarity with C, Python and Unix/Linux environments are a plus.

Negotiable start date in early 2012. Competitive salary scale comparable to  postdoctoral positions in computer science.  Initial appointment for one year with renewal subject to performance and availability of funding.  Please apply by email with  a statement of research interests and a CV including the names and contact information for three references. Send the application to: linguistics@northwestern.edu  using the subject line: Pierrehumbert postdoc

The application should arrive by December 10, 2011 to receive  fullest consideration.

Northwestern is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and applications are encouraged from all qualified junior researchers. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States. Non-US-residents will receive consideration for the position.

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PhD student in Sonification Research
(Audio Engineering/ Climate Science)
Applications are invited for a postgraduate student to join the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics
(IEM, http://iem.kug.ac.at) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz for the FWF funded project
SysSon – A systematic procedure to develop sonifications.
The goal of SysSon is the systematic development of sonifications - from finding sound metaphors and creating
a ‘sound library’ to aesthetic/ scientific evaluation and finally the sonification tool ‘ClAudio-Climate Audio’. The
procedure is developed with and tested on data from Climate Science. Main researchers of the project (and
supervisors of the PhD) are R. Höldrich and K. Vogt at IEM, where the PhD student will be based. Cooperation
partners are the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (www.wegcenter.at) and the Center for
Systematic Musicology (www.uni-graz.at/en/muwi99ww).
The PhD will comprise the application of the procedure to data from climate science: handling data
compatibility issues, sound synthesis, co-development of evaluation test design, finalizing of ClAudio, and
supporting of sound installation.
The position is available from 1st February 2012 and financial support is guaranteed for 2 ½ years (an
additional half year of support for writing up the thesis is envisaged). Salary will be paid according to
www.fwf.ac.at („Personalkostensätze“ – „DoktorandIn“).
The closing date for applications is 25th December 2011. (Skype) interviews are planned for January.
Female applicants are preferentially considered in case of equal qualification.
We expect:
· A Master’s degree in audio engineering and electrical engineering or computer science or similar, who
have a solid scientific background in acoustics, sound synthesis and auditory perception. An
additional background in sciences (physics/ climate science) is beneficial. Candidates about to earn
their degree are welcome to apply.
· Familiarity with programming languages (either SuperCollider3 or Pure Data; plus other programs
such as Max MSP, MATLAB, etc.) is a precondition.
· High motivation for interdisciplinary and application-oriented work and a special interest for
sonification research.
· An integrative and cooperative personality.
· Very good communication skills in English.
We offer:
· A top-level research environment at the edge of technology and the arts; the IEM is considered to be
Austria’s leading research institution in the field of audio engineering with the three research areas
Artistic Research, Signal Processing and Acoustics, and Computer Music (including sonification).
· Efficient supervision by an interdisciplinary team of supervisors, strong communication and
interaction between the involved institutions.
· The location in Graz – a city of five universities (two are involved in SysSon) and cultural capital of
Europe 2003, hosting internationally renowned festivals such as steirischer herbst and Elevate.
Please send your applications (in English or German) to vogt@iem.at including:
· letter of motivation or résumé
· CV
· copy of relevant university diplomas
· a short exposé (1-2 pages) on a previous project related to audio engineering, sonification or similar
(sound examples –or their links- are welcome)

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Post-doctoral position in Cognitive Neuroscience
Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral research position in the
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH GROUP at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
The post is part of the BRAINGLOT project, a Research Network on Bilingualism and
Cognitive Neuroscience (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Scheme, Spanish Ministry of
Science and Education).
Project
The project brings together the efforts of several research groups spanning different
scientific disciplines with the common purpose of addressing the phenomenon of
bilingualism from an open and multidisciplinary perspective. The MRG attempts to
understand the use of multisensory cues (audiovisual) speech information in the
context of learning and using a second language. The project includes behavioral,
neuroimaging (fMRI, ERP) and, neurostimulation (TMS) approaches.
Job description
We seek a person who leads the electrophysiological aspects of the project
(ERP/EEG), including the development of independent scientific studies, as well as the
participation (i.e., supervision) in others. Involvement in some organizational and
management aspects is also expected.
Candidate requirements
- Previous experience in ERP/EEG recording and analysis is *indispensable*
- PhD
- Motivation about the question of multisensory integration and/or speech perception
- Background in cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, and/or cognitive psychology
- Programming skills
* Applicants from outside the EU are welcome to apply but must qualify for a valid visa.
Conditions
- Duration: The position will be funded and renewable for up to two years
- Starting date: As soon as possible
- Salary: 28000EUR/year
- Travel: The project may require some travel to conferences / meetings
How to apply
Applications should include:
- a C.V. including a list of publications
- the names of two referees who would willing to write letters of recommendation
- a brief cover letter describing research interests
For informal enquiries about the position and applications, please contact Salvador
Soto-Faraco. salvador.soto@icrea.es (http://www.mrg.upf.edu). Applications will be
accepted until the position is filled.
Please, mention that you are applying to the POSTDOCTORAL position in the email
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Offre post-doctorale en traitement de la parole.

Avignon, LIA.

Date limite de candidature : 15 Février 2012

Dans le cadre du projet « DECODA » (http://decoda.univ-avignon.fr)  financé par l'ANR, le LIA souhaite recruter un chercheur post-doctorant dans le domaine du traitement automatique de la parole. Le projet Decoda s'intéresse au dépouillement de données audio issues de grands centres d'appels. C'est un projet mené par le LIA, le LIF, la RATP et la société Sonear.

Le post-doctorant travaillera au développement et à l'évaluation de méthodes globales intégrant reconnaisseurs de parole et modules de catégorisation de documents pour la structuration de très grandes bases de documents parlés.

Le candidat devra être titulaire d'une thèse en informatique ou en traitement du signal avec une bonne expérience en traitement de la parole et/ou en modélisation statistique du langage. Il devra posséder des connaissances théoriques et pratiques en reconnaissance des formes, classification et apprentissage automatique.

Le LIA (http://lia.univ-avignon.fr) est une Equipe d'Accueil (EA n° 4128) qui regroupe les enseignants-chercheurs de l’Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (UAPV) relevant de la 27e section du CNU ainsi que les ingénieurs, les doctorants et les stagiaires de MASTER durant la période consacrée à leur travail de recherche. Le post-doctorant rejoindra la thématique langage du laboratoire et travaillera avec les membres de la thématique travaillant sur le projet Decoda.

Le poste, d'une durée de 12 mois (avec prolongations possibles) est à pourvoir à partir du 15e janvier 2012. La rémunération est comprise entre 2000 et 2400 euros nets par mois, suivant l'expérience du candidat.

Contact: Georges Linarès, LIA (georges.linares@univ-avignon.fr)

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AT&T Labs - Research

Researcher and Research Software Engineer Positions

AT&T Research, one of the premier industrial research laboratories in
the world, is looking for talented individuals to make a difference in
the world of communications.  Our researchers and research software
engineers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language
processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying
innovative services. We also explore fundamental research problems in
these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at all levels of
experience are encouraged to apply.  Candidates must demonstrate
excellence in research, a collaborative spirit and strong communication
and software skills.

Areas of particular interest are

     * Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
     * Acoustic and language modeling
     * Robust speech recognition
     * Signal processing
     * Adaptive learning
     * Pronunciation modeling
     * Natural language understanding and dialog
     * Speaker biometrics
     * Voice and multimodal search
     * Software engineering for speech and language processing

Positions will be based in New Jersey, New York, or California,
depending on area of focus.

For more information, visit www.research.att.com and click on 'Working
with us'.

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Stage fin d’études pré-embauche : Ingénieur Développement

Avant-vente: Authentification forte grâce à la voix

La société :

La société GEOLSemantics est une société française basée à Paris et qui
compte une quinzaine de personnes.
Elle a pour vocation de proposer des solutions logicielles pour aider à
la détection et au tracking d’activités hostiles envers les Etats, les
entreprises et les personnes. Ces solutions s’appliquent à l’information
contenue dans les différents média : texte, audio et vidéo.
Elles utilisent des algorithmes sophistiqués d’analyse sémantique
multilingue pour permettre aux opérationnels de disposer d’une
information synthétique représentant la connaissance extraite des
différentes sources d’information.
Elles utilisent également des technologies d’avant-garde
d’identification de locuteur dans les médias audio ou vidéo.

Sujet du stage

GEOLSemantics recherche un stagiaire bac +5 en informatique pour la
réalisation d’un prototype ‘authentification forte de locuteur’
utilisant nos outils de biométrie vocale.
Intégré(e) au sein d'une équipe à taille humaine, vous aurez la
possibilité de vous épanouir dans le monde de la sécurité renforcée et
de la lutte contre l’usurpation d’identité.

Contenu du stage :

Le but de ce stage est de réaliser un prototype pour appuyer la vente de
nos solutions de biométrie vocale. L’objectif est d’améliorer la
sécurité d’accès des applications grâce à l’identification vocale du
locuteur. Cette authentification forte vient en complément des méthodes
classiques basées sur un login/mot de passe.

Déroulement du stage :
-    Choix et mise en place de l’architecture,
-    Elaboration de scenarii,
-    Développement de l’infrastructure du prototype,
-    Développement d’une application sous Androïd pour la mise à
        disposition du prototype sur mobile,
-    Test et présentation aux avant projets client.

Vos capacités d'autonomie, vos aptitudes à vous exprimer et à rédiger
vous permettront rapidement d'être responsable de la réalisation et du
suivi complet de vos travaux sous la conduite d’un ingénieur
expérimenté.

Profil du stagiaire :

Compétences techniques requises :

-    Master 2 ou ingénieur en informatique
-    bonnes connaissances en Java Web (notion de HTML/CSS)
-    des connaissances en Androïd (ou capacité à acquérir ces
        connaissances rapidement)
-    capacité à appréhender un domaine nouveau (biométrie vocale)
-    Maîtrise du XML et de RDF

Qualités requises : Bon rédactionnel. Forte curiosité fonctionnelle,
forte autonomie

Le stage est placé sous la responsabilité du responsable avant-vente

-    Durée : 6 mois minimum
-    Début du stage : dès que possible
-    Lieu : Paris 15ème
-    Indemnités : à débattre

Candidature à adresser  (CV, lettre de motivation, photo) à :
Emmanuel Dupont, Directeur des Opérations
Société GEOLSemantics
32,  rue Brancion
75015 Paris
emmanuel.dupont@geolsemantics.com

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Audio Indexing Researcher W/M position at IRCAM – 3DTV project

Starting :  January - February , 2012

Duration : 18 months

Introduction to IRCAM

IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization associated to Centre Pompidou, dedicated to music production, R&D and education in acoustics and music. It hosts composers, researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production, scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D department include acoustics, audio signal processing, computer music, interaction technologies, musicology. Ircam is located in the centre of Paris near the Centre Pompidou, at 1, Place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris.

Introduction to 3DTVs project

The goal of the 3DTVS project is to devise scalable 3DTV AV content description, indexing, search and browsing methods across open platforms, by using mobile and desktop user interfaces and to incorporate such functionalities in 3D audiovisual content archives. 3D multichannel audio analysis targets audio event detection based on fusion techniques that combine the feature analysis performed in the individual channels as well as source localization and separation algorithms for the detection of moving audio sources. The results will be used in 3D audio/cross-modal indexing and retrieval. Multimodal 3D audiovisual content analysis will built on the results of 3D video and audio analysis. 3DTV content description and search mechanisms will be developed to enable fast reply to semantic queries.

Role of IRCAM in the 3DTV Project

In the 3DTVs project, IRCAM is in charge of the research and development of technologies related to

-        Audio event detection using multi-channel audio scenes

-        Speaker diarization

-        Segmentation into Movie scene from the audio signal

-        Sound source separation, localization and identification

Position description

Hired Researcher will be in charge of the development of technologies related to:

• Audio event detection using multi-channel audio scenes
• Speaker diarization
• Segmentation into Movie scene from the audio signal

The Researchers will also collaborate with the development team and participate in the project activities (evaluation, meetings, specifications).

Required profiles

• High skill in audio indexing and data mining (statistical modelling, automatic feature selection algorithm …); especially late-fusion algorithms
• High skill in audio signal processing (spectral analysis, audio-feature extraction, parameter estimation)
• High-skill in Matlab programming, skills in C/C++ programming

• Good knowledge of Linux, Windows, MAC-OS environments
• High productivity, methodical works, excellent programming style.

Salary

According to background and experience

Applications

Please send an application letter together with your resume and any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email to: peeters_a_t_ircam dot fr with cc to vinet_a_t_ircam dot fr, roebel_at_ircam_dot_fr

L’Ircam recrute un Chercheur  H/F – en CDD de 18 mois et à temps plein – Projet 3DTVs

Poste disponible à partir du 1^er janvier 2012

Présentation de l’Ircam

L'Ircam est une association à but non lucratif, associée au Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, dont les missions comprennent des activités de recherche, de création et de pédagogie autour de la musique du XXème siècle et de ses relations avec les sciences et technologies. Au sein de son département R&D, des équipes spécialisées mènent des travaux de recherche et de développement informatique dans les domaines de l'acoustique, du traitement des signaux sonores, des technologies d’interaction, de l’informatique musicale et de la musicologie. L'Ircam est situé au centre de Paris à proximité du Centre Georges Pompidou au 1, Place Stravinsky 75004 Paris.

Introduction au projet 3DTVs

L'objectif du projet 3DTVs est de concevoir des descriptions évolutives des contenus 3DTV, leur indexation, leur recherche ainsi que la conception de méthodes de navigation sur toutes des plateformes ouvertes, en utilisant des interfaces utilisateurs mobiles et fixes et d'intégrer de telles fonctionnalités 3D dans les archives de contenus audiovisuels. L’analyse multi canal audio 3D vise la détection d’événements audio basés sur des techniques de fusion combinant l'analyse audio effectuée dans les canaux individuels ainsi que des algorithmes de localisation et de séparation de source pour la détection des mouvements des sources audio. Les résultats seront utilisés pour l’indexation 3D audio et cross modale ainsi que pour la recherche. L’indexation audio/ video multimodale 3D des contenus audiovisuels s’appuiera sur les résultats de l’indexation vidéo 3D et audio 3D. Des méthodes de description de contenu et de recherche seront développées afin de permettre des réponses rapides aux recherches sémantiques.

Rôle de l’Ircam dans le projet Quaero

Dans le projet 3DTVs, l'Ircam est en charge de la recherche et du développement des technologies relatives à la

-        Détection des événements audio en utilisant les scènes audio multi canal

-        Segmentation en tours de parole

-        Segmentation de scène de films  partir de l’audio

-        Séparation, localisation et identification des sources sonores

Missions

Le Chercheur sera en charge du développement des technologies liées à:

-        Détection des événements audio en utilisant les scènes audio multi canal

Le chercheur collaborera également avec l'équipe de développement et participera aux activités du projet (évaluation, réunions, spécification).

Profil recherché

• Grande expérience de recherche en indexation audio (modélisation statistique, sélection automatique de descripteurs …) ; grande connaissance en techniques de fusion tardives
• Grande expérience de recherche en traitement du signal (analyse spectrale, extraction de descripteurs audio, estimation de paramètres) 
• Très bonne connaissance du langage Matlab

• Connaissance des environnements Linux, Windows et Mac OS-X.
• Connaissance des langages C et C++
• Haute productivité, travail méthodique, excellent style de programmation, bonne communication rigueur

Salaire

Selon formation et expérience professionnelle

Candidatures

Prière d'envoyer une lettre de motivation et un CV détaillant le niveau d'expérience/expertise dans les domaines mentionnés ci-dessus (ainsi que tout autre information pertinente) à peeters_a_t_ircam dot fr avec copie à

vinet_a_t_ircam dot fr, roebel_at_ircam_dot_fr

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the result of the merger of the University of

Karlsruhe and the Research Center, Karlsruhe. It is a unique institution in Germany, which

combines the mission of a university with that of a large-scale research center of the

Helmholtz Association. With 8000 employees and an annual budget of EUR 650 million,

KIT is one of the largest research and education institutions worldwide.

At the

Institute for Anthropomatics, Lehrstuhl Prof. Waibel several positions are to

be filled:

Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Position

in the field of

Machine Translation

with a salary according to

TV-L E13.

The responsibilities include basic research in the area of statistical machine translation, as

well as participation in

application targeted research projects in the area of multimodal

dialog centered Human-machine interaction. The candidate is expected to participate in

the design, development, and exploration of innovative methods, algorithms and

techniques to be successfully integrated in humanoid robots.

Within the framework of the

international center for advanced communication

technology (interACT)

, our center operates in three locations, Karlsruhe Institute of

Technology, Germany and at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley,

USA. This offers a first class research environment, working in advanced research

projects at two of the top computer science research universities in the US and Europe.

International joint and collaborative research

at and between our centers is common

and encouraged, and offers great international exposure and activity.

The focus of our research is to develop better communication and computing services that

take advantage of an understanding of the Human context and activities. One of our

current research interests is the field of simultaneous translation of lectures, video

conferencing, and monologues in general.

We seek qualified candidates with a M.S. or a Phd degree in Computer Science, Electrical

Engineering, or related fields. The position offers the opportunity to work toward a Ph.D.

degree or toward the advancement of an academic career. A record of academic

achievements, relevant experience and knowledge in relevant areas, and excellent

programming skills are expected.

KIT is pursuing a gender equality policy. Women are therefore particularly encouraged to

apply. If equally qualified, handicapped applicants will be preferred.

Questions may be directed to E-Mail:

sebastian.stueker@kit.edu,

http://isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu

The application should be sent to Professor Alex Waibel, Institut für Anthropomatik,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Postfach 6980, 76049 Karlsruhe, Germany

KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association.

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the result of the merger of the University of

Karlsruhe and the Research Center, Karlsruhe. It is a unique institution in Germany, which

combines the mission of a university with that of a large-scale research center of the

Helmholtz Association. With 8000 employees and an annual budget of EUR 650 million,

KIT is one of the largest research and education institutions worldwide.

At the

Institute for Anthropomatics, Lehrstuhl Prof. Waibel several positions are to

be filled:

Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Position

in the field of

Automatic Speech Recognition

with a salary according to

TV-L E13.

The responsibilities include basic research in the area of

automatic speech recognition,

as well as participation in

application targeted research projects in the area of

multimodal dialog centered Human-machine interaction. The candidate is expected to

contribute to the state-of-the art of modern recognition systems. He/she will participate in

the design, development, and exploration of innovative methods, algorithms and

techniques towards

acoustic and language modeling leading to improvements in

recognizer performance.

Within the framework of the

international center for advanced communication

technology (interACT)

, our center operates in three locations, Karlsruhe Institute of

Technology, Germany and at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley,

USA. This offers a first class research environment, working in advanced research

projects at two of the top computer science research universities in the US and Europe.

International joint and collaborative research

at and between our centers is common

and encouraged, and offers great international exposure and activity.

Our current research interests include the simultaneous translation of lectures, video

conferencing and general monologues, key-word spotting in a multitude of languages, and

multilingual speech recognition and speech recognition for under-resourced languages.

We seek qualified candidates with a M.S. or a Phd degree in Computer Science, Electrical

Engineering, or related fields. The position offers the opportunity to work toward a Ph.D.

degree or toward the advancement of an academic career. A record of academic

achievements, relevant experience and knowledge in relevant areas, and excellent

programming skills are expected.

KIT is pursuing a gender equality policy. Women are therefore particularly encouraged to

apply. If equally qualified, handicapped applicants will be preferred.

Questions may be directed to E-Mail:

sebastian.stueker@kit.edu,

http://isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu

The application should be sent to Professor Alex Waibel, Institut für Anthropomatik,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Postfach 6980, 76049 Karlsruhe, Germany

KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association.

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the result of the merger of the University of

Karlsruhe and the Research Center, Karlsruhe. It is a unique institution in Germany, which

combines the mission of a university with that of a large-scale research center of the

Helmholtz Association. With 8000 employees and an annual budget of EUR 650 million,

KIT is one of the largest research and education institutions worldwide.

At the

Institute for Anthropomatics, Lehrstuhl Prof. Waibel several positions are to

be filled:

Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Position

in the field of

Dialog Modeling

with a salary according to

TV-L E13.

The responsibilities include basic research in the area of dialog systems, as well as

participation in

application targeted research projects in the area of multimodal dialog

centered Human-machine interaction. The candidate is expected to participate in the

design, development, and exploration of innovative methods, algorithms and techniques

to be successfully integrated in humanoid robots.

Within the framework of the

international center for advanced communication

technology (interACT)

, our center operates in three locations, Karlsruhe Institute of

Technology, Germany and at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley,

USA. This offers a first class research environment, working in advanced research

projects at two of the top computer science research universities in the US and Europe.

International joint and collaborative research

at and between our centers is common

and encouraged, and offers great international exposure and activity.

The focus of our research is to develop better communication and computing services that

take advantage of an understanding of the Human context and activities. One of our

current research interests is the field of multimodal perception and dialog centered

Human-machine interaction.

We seek qualified candidates with a M.S. or a Phd degree in Computer Science, Electrical

Engineering, or related fields. The position offers the opportunity to work toward a Ph.D.

degree or toward the advancement of an academic career. A record of academic

achievements, relevant experience and knowledge in relevant areas, and excellent

programming skills are expected.

KIT is pursuing a gender equality policy. Women are therefore particularly encouraged to

apply. If equally qualified, handicapped applicants will be preferred.

Questions may be directed to E-Mail:

sebastian.stueker@kit.edu,

http://isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu

The application should be sent to

Professor Alex Waibel, Institut für Anthropomatik,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Postfach 6980, 76049 Karlsruhe, Germany

KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association.

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Immediate postdoctoral position openings
USC Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL)
http://sail.usc.edu
University of Southern California
The USC Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab has new
postdoctoral scholar (and PhD student and positions) available.
SAIL conducts fundamental and applied research that bridges human
communication science and engineering in a collaborative, richly diverse
interdisciplinary environment and has several projects underway both on
core technologues and in applications targeting education and human health and well being.

Requirements include  strong fundamentals and interests in one or more of the following: Signal Processing, Computing/Machine Learning, Speech
science, Human communication, Natural Language Processing, Image/Vision, and Affective Computing. Programming skills.
Additionally a desire to work on real problems and data, to take leadership and be proactive, ability to work in a collaborative manner and contribute to the lab's mentoring culture, and a thirst for learning.

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 Poste d'Ingénieur Site web et éducation et rééducation de la prononciation du français par des apprenants pour projet LabEx, EFL (PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité) Opération PPC10 (valorisation) du labex EFL Le laboratoire d’excellence « Fondements empiriques de la linguistique : données, méthodes, modèles » recherche un Developpeur/programmeur (Web) pour une mission de création. Contexte Le projet EFL est un « laboratoire d’excellence » créé en 2011 pour 10 ans (2011-2021) par le Ministère de la Recherche. Il regroupe 13 équipes de recherche de 5 établissements (Paris 3, Paris 5, Paris 7, Paris 13 et INALCO) appartenant au PRES Sorbonne Paris-Cité, autour de la linguistique et des disciplines connexes dont l’objet d’étude est le langage. Il représente 150 chercheurs et une centaine de doctorants. Il est organisé autour de 7 axes scientifiques (géré chacun par un établissement partenaire) et de volets formation et valorisation. Le développeur/programmeur (web) aura pour tâche de créer un site internet/logiciel dans le cadre d'un projet lié à la conception et développement Web pour l’enseignement à distance. Le poste est disponible pour 6 mois, temps complet. Lieu d’affectation : Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, ILPGA. 19 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris. Rémunération : Ingénieur, selon expérience. Le poste Le CDD concernera un spécialiste de l’enseignement à distance, si possible dans le domaine de l’enseignement des langues, pour étudier la faisabilité et mettre en place un prototype. Tous les membres du Labex seront invités à tester ce prototype. L’ingénieur aura à sa charge deux tâches principales: Évaluer les solutions existantes et tester la faisabilité du projet, faire un rapport sur les solutions disponibles. Élaborer un site web de test pour la mise en place de ces cours en ligne (avec en partie, contact direct via internet, avec les futurs enseignants, tous phonéticiens ou orthophonistes diplômés) , avec utilisation à distance de certains capteurs spécialisés (détection de nasalité, d’aspiration, de qualité de voix, etc.) et diagnostics en ligne et en différé des problèmes à résoudre. L’ingénieur choisit sera amené à manipuler en plus de fichiers avec des formats courants, des fichiers avec différents formats : vidéos, acoustiques, textuels. Il lui sera demandé de convertir ces fichiers dans des formats génériques permettant un stockage pérenne via internet. La personne recrutée doit une bonne connaissance de la programmation web (MySQL, PHP), incluant le développement d’interface (IHM), une bonne connaissance des plateformes pédagogiques. Profil recherché - Expérience de 1 à 5 ans dans la conception de site web - Une première expérience dans la construction d'un site pour les langues, la linguistique est recommandée - Des connaissances des formats utilisés en parole pourraient être un plus. Compétences - Pratique de l'anglais et du français courante (oral et écrit) - Rapidité, efficacité, adaptation au monde de la recherche et de l'université Pour candidater envoyer : - un CV - une lettre de motivation - des lettres de recommandation sont souhaitées La candidature doit être envoyée en un seul fichier au format .pdf ou .doc avec comme nom de fichier prénomnom_cv Date limite de candidature : 1 Mars 2012 Début du contrat : dès disponibilité à partir du 1er Mars 2012 A : jacqueline.vaissiere@univ-paris3.fr

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Proposition de stage M2R (fouille de données et parole)

Contact : Sophie Rosset (rosset@limsi.fr)

Lieu : LIMSI - CNRS, bat 508, BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex, groupe Traitement du Langage Parlé

Titre : Fouilles de données appliquées à des données audio : erreurs et entités nommées

Contexte 
Ce stage de M2 s'inscrit dans les domaines du Traitement Automatique des
Langues (TAL) et de la Parole (TAP) ainsi que celui de la fouille de
données. Nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à la
caractérisation des erreurs d'un système de transcription de la parole
dont les sorties sont utilisées par un système de reconnaissance
d'Entités Nommées. Il s'agit de mettre en place une méthode permettant
de classifier et de caractériser les erreurs de plusieurs systèmes de
transcription de la parole en quantifiant leur impact sur un (ou
plusieurs) systèmes de reconnaissance d'Entités Nommées. Cette méthode
devra être généralisable à d'autres types d'applications comme la
traduction automatique ou un système de dialogue homme/machine.

Sujet
Les systèmes de reconnaissance de la parole sont évalués en utilisant
le taux d'erreurs de mots (WER ou Word Error Rate) qui considère
chaque mot comme ayant une importance égale. Or on constate que cette
métrique d'évaluation ne permet de mesurer la difficulté qu'aura un
système d'extractions d'information. Autrement dit, si on applique un
même système de détection d'entités nommées sur deux sorties de
système de reconnaissance ayant pourtant un même WER, le taux d'erreur
du système de détection d'entités nommées sera différent.

L'objectif de ce stage est donc de caractériser les erreurs d'un
système de reconnaissance de la parole en fonction d'une tâche de
détection d'entités nommées et de l'impact qu'ont ces erreurs.

Nous nous focaliserons au cours de ce stage sur la parole
journalistique en utilisant les données d'une campagne d'évaluation
récente. Cette campagne a mis en évidence une très grosse perte de
résultats des systèmes de reconnaissance d'entités nommées sur des
sorties de système de reconnaissance automatique de la parole (30% de
perte) [1].

Les sorties de trois systèmes de transcription seront étudiées. Leur
impact devra être étudié sur au moins un système d'identification
d'Entités Nommées également fourni par le LIMSI. Ces systèmes sont à
l'état de l'art et pourront donc servir de première référence.

[1]  Olivier Galibert; Sophie Rosset; Cyril Grouin; Pierre Zweigenbaum; Ludovic Quintard. Structured and Extended Named Entity Evaluation in Automatic Speech Transcriptions. IJCNLP 2011 (http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/I/I11/I11-1058.pdf)

Informations pratiques

Le stage, d'une durée de 5 mois, se déroulera au LIMSI, dans le groupe
Traitement du Langage Parlé et le stagiaire recevra une gratification
(de l'ordre de 480 euros/mois).

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Dans le cadre de la campagne de recrutement d'enseignants-chercheurs 2012, un poste de professeur en 7ème section CNU sera ouvert à l'Université Lumière Lyon 2, avec affectation au département de Sciences du langage et rattachement au laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage
L'intitulé de ce poste est  'Linguistique générale et linguistique française. Linguistique de terrain'.
Il correspond à un profil hybride en termes de profil d'enseignement et de profil de recherche (voir ci-dessous). La date d'ouverture des candidatures sur le portail Galaxie est le 23 février 2012 et la date limite des candidatures est fixée au 27 mars 2012 (16h pour l'application en ligne, minuit pour l'envoi des documents papier).

N'hésitez-pas à me contacter pour toute demande d'information : Francois.Pellegrino@univ-lyon2.fr

Éléments du profil RECHERCHE :
Le Professeur recruté sera rattaché au laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596). Il/Elle devra avoir démontré sa capacité à mener des recherches de haut niveau dans un contexte scientifique internationalisé.  Ses activités s’intègreront à l’axe « Description, Typologie et Variation » et éventuellement au thème transversal « Langues En Danger : Terrain, Description, Valorisation ». En cohérence avec les thèmes scientifiques principaux de l’unité, une attention particulière – quoique non exclusive – sera portée aux candidats menant des activités de recherche de terrain visant à la production de descriptions et de grammaires de langues.

Éléments du profil ENSEIGNEMENT :
Le poste est ouvert à tout candidat qui témoigne d’une activité scientifique soutenue en matière d’analyse linguistique et qui conjugue si possible une compétence en linguistique générale et en linguistique française. La polyvalence est privilégiée, tant sur le plan des domaines de recherche que des méthodologies (linguistique de terrain et / ou de corpus, notamment).

Merci par avance de diffuser cette annonce auprès des collègues potentiellement intéressé-e-s.
 François Pellegrino

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 Directeur du Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage
 UMR 5596 CNRS - Université Lumière Lyon 2
 Tel. (+33/0)4 72 72 64 94
 DDL - ISH
 14, av. Berthelot
 69363 Lyon Cedex 7 / FranceD

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Research and Development Opportunities for Next Generation Technology at Microsoft

Do you want to impact billions of people all over the world with speech technology that you create?

We are looking for PhD level scientists and senior scientists, who will work on research problems in spoken language understanding, statistical dialog modeling, natural language generation, machine learning, statistical language modeling, and acoustic modeling.

Microsoft is all-in on the Natural User Interface to bring computing to larger audiences in more applications. To drive this mission we are bringing together scientists and engineers in the areas of speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and synthesis to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios and languages.

Join the excitement to be part of the newly formed team of scientists within Microsoft and to impact the lives of billions of people all over the world. We’re talking about Bing, Windows, XBOX, Mobile, Exchange Server and Tellme, just to name a few. Microsoft is dedicated to improving everyday life using speech. And not just in a few countries - but around the world.

How to apply:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Attention: Recruiting,

One Microsoft Way, STE 303, Redmond WA 98052-8303

Or email resume to: Tom Swanson toswanso@microsoft.com

Please reference Speech

in the subject line.

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NSF-Supported Summer Research for Undergraduates
   
The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University is seeking outstanding members of the current junior class to join a summer research workshop on language engineering from June 11 to August 7, 2012.

The 8-week workshop provides an intense intellectual environment.  Undergraduates work closely alongside more senior researchers as part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled for the summer to attack some problem of current interest.  The teams and topics for summer 2012 are described here:

 http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/internships/

We hope that this stimulating and selective experience will encourage students to pursue graduate study in human language technology, as it has been doing for many years.
 
The summer workshop provides:

* An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research
* A two-week tutorial on current speech and language technology
* Mentoring by an experienced researcher
* Participation in project planning activities
* Use of a computing cluster and personal workstation
* A $5,000 stipend and $2,520 towards per diem expenses
* Private furnished accommodation for the duration of the workshop
* Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue

Applications should be received by WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012, INCLUDING one letter from a faculty nominator.  Apply online here:

 http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/internships/
 
Applicants are evaluated only on relevant skills, employment experience, past academic record, and the strength of letters of recommendation.  No limitation is placed on the undergraduate major.  Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

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Research and Development Opportunities for Next Generation Technology at Microsoft

Do you want to impact billions of people all over the world with speech technology that you create?

We are looking for PhD level scientists and senior scientists, who will work on research problems in spoken language understanding, statistical dialog modeling, natural language generation, machine learning, statistical language modeling, and acoustic modeling.

Microsoft is all-in on the Natural User Interface to bring computing to larger audiences in more applications. To drive this mission we are bringing together scientists and engineers in the areas of speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and synthesis to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios and languages.

Join the excitement to be part of the newly formed team of scientists within Microsoft and to impact the lives of billions of people all over the world. We’re talking about Bing, Windows, XBOX, Mobile, Exchange Server and Tellme, just to name a few. Microsoft is dedicated to improving everyday life using speech. And not just in a few countries - but around the world.

How to apply:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Attention: Recruiting,

One Microsoft Way, STE 303, Redmond WA 98052-8303

Or email resume to: Tom Swanson toswanso@microsoft.com

Please reference Speech

in the subject line.

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Un poste de Maître de Conférences contractuel (1 an renouvelable) est disponible au laboratoire SIGMA (SIGnaux, Modèles, Apprentissage statistique)  de l'ESPCI ParisTech à partir d'avril 2012.
Enseignement : électronique et automatique (niveau 1ère année).
Recherche : apprentissage statistique appliqué à la conception d'une interface de parole silencieuse ou à la prédiction des propriétés/activités de molécules.
Rémunération : 33800€ par an + heures supplémentaires

Description détaillée du poste : http://www.neurones.espci.fr

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Le poste requiert une double compétence : un haut niveau d’excellence scientifique en Informatique et en applications de l’Informatique aux sciences humaines et sociales (notamment le traitement paralinguistique de la parole et du langage, la sociologie computationnelle, …). L’intérêt porté aux applications de la théorie informatique aux sciences humaines et sociales constitue une des spécificités de l’enseignement de l’Informatique à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne. Le candidat enseignera l’Informatique dans différentes formations de licence (LFTI) et de master (ILGII, IILGI). Il s’impliquera également dans l’encadrement de nouvelles licences bi-cursus (licence Sciences-Sciences du langage, …) en projet au sein du PRES Sorbonne Universités.

Le (la) MCF rejoindra le département de Mathématiques et d’Informatique appliquées aux Sciences de l’Homme (actuellement 6 MCF et 2 Pr) de l’Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées (ISHA) de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. Ce département participe à des formations pluridisciplinaires de licence et de master. Il est également chargé de l’enseignement de l’informatique pour les étudiants de lettres et de sciences humaines. Le candidat sera rattaché à une des équipes de recherches de l’ISHA et devra présenter un programme de recherche qui s’insère dans les perspectives d’une de ces équipes.

Contact : Claude.Montacie@paris-sorbonne.fr
Laboratoires d'accueil : UMR 8598 (GEMASS), EA 4509 (STIH)

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For the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) research program 'Language, Communication and Cognition' (LCC), we are looking for two new, enthusiastic and competent PhD colleagues.

If you are interested in one of these positions, you will need to identify a potential research topic related to one of the research themes of the LCC program. Current themes include:


- Social media and interpersonal communication.


- Professional communication (medical, business, etc.).


- Alignment and adaptation in communication.


- Social exclusion and other social aspects of interaction.


- Emotion and speech.


- Language acquisition and learning.


- Multimodality and communication.


- Language and speech production.


- Visual communication (diagrams, metaphors, etc.).


- Gesture and other forms of non-verbal behavior


For the positions we seek candidates with a background in a relevant discipline, including Psycholinguistics, Communication & Information Sciences, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Psychology or some related area, with experience in doing experiments and analyzing data.

The PhD candidates have a good (research) master degree in one of the aforementioned areas, a strong interest in doing research, excellent writing skills and a good command of English. Developing and defending a research plan is part of the procedure.

Tilburg University is rated among the top Dutch employers, offering excellent terms of employment. The collective labour agreement of Tilburg University applies. The selected candidates will start with a contract for one year, concluded by an evaluation. Upon a positive outcome of the first-year evaluation, the candidate will be offered an employment contract for the remaining years. Candidates with a Research Master (MPhil) will be offered a 1+2 years-contract. Master students might be offered a 1+3 years-contract. It is also possible to work 80% instead of fulltime. The PhD candidates will be ranked in the Dutch university job ranking system (UFO) as a PhD-student (promovendus) with a starting salary of € 2.042,-- gross per month in the first year, up to € 2.612,-- in the fourth year (amounts fulltime). The selected candidate is expected to have written a PhD thesis by the end of the contract (which may be based on articles).

Research in the Department of Communication and Information Sciences is located in the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC). TiCC consists of two research programs: Language, Communication and Cognition (LCC) and Creative Computing (CC). There is a strong emphasis on experimental research and interdisciplinary cooperation. More information about the research programs can be found at http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/ticc/. There is a strong emphasis on experimental work and interdisciplinary cooperation. The department DCI is responsible for a flourishing academic programme Communication and Information Sciences (CIW), that annually attracts about 120 Bachelor students, 130 Pre-master and 200 Master students. The department is also co-responsible for the Research Master Language and Communication. More information about the DCI department can be found at www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/dci/.


For more information on the positions, please contact one of LCC program leaders prof.dr. Emiel Krahmer (E.J.Krahmer@uvt.nl, +311346630700) or prof.dr. Marc Swerts (M.G.J.Swerts@uvt.nl, +31134662922).

Applications should include.


- a cover letter.


- a Curriculum Vitae.


- a 2-page research proposal on a selected theme, plus names of potential supervisor and promotor.


- names of two references.

The only way to apply is via the online link at the bottom of this vacancy: 'apply direct'. If you receive this vacancy via eg. E-mail, please look at the vacancy located at: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/working-at/wp/. Applications should be sent before the application deadline of March 24, 2012. Interviews are expected to be held in April 2012. Starting dates are flexible, so applicants who expect to graduate in the summer of 2012 are also invited to apply.

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Un poste de Maitre de Conférences est ouvert au recrutement pour la rentrée 2012 à l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Voici le descriptif ci-dessous. (plus de détails sur http://lpp.univ-paris3.fr/postes/offres.htm)


Enseignement :

L’enseignant(e) recruté(e) pour ce poste devra se consacrer à la formation en sciences phonétiques et initier les étudiants à des domaines traditionnels, mais aussi plus modernes au sein du cursus de Licence (http://www.ilpga.univ-paris3.fr/documents/descriptifs-licence.pdf) et de Master (http://www.ilpga.univ-paris3.fr/masters.html) de Sciences du Langage.
Le/la candidat(e) enseignera dans les domaines suivants : phonétique acoustique et articulatoire ; aspects perceptifs/cognitifs et communicationnels de la parole ; didactique de la phonétique ; prosodie ; phonétique comparée des langues ; phonétique clinique, etc. Il est également attendu que le/la candidat(e) puisse éventuellement enseigner dans d’autres domaines de la linguistique.

Composante / UFR / Lieu(x) d’exercice :
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
Institut de Linguistique et Phonétique Générales Appliquées
19, rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris.


Recherche :

Le candidat sera accueilli par le Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7018), dont le rôle est d’assurer un enrichissement mutuel entre les sciences phonétiques et la phonologie, et l’application de cet enrichissement dans un grand nombre de domaines, tels que l’apprentissage d’une langue nouvelle, l’acquisition du langage, la remédiation, la typologie des langues, etc. La recherche du candidat s’effectuera en synergie avec celles des membres du LPP et contribuera ainsi au développement des thèmes de recherche du laboratoire. Il est également attendu que le candidat participe à la vie administrative du laboratoire.

Laboratoire de rattachement : Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP), UMR 7018 (http://lpp.univ-paris3.fr/)

Contacts : Jacqueline Vaissière; Cédric Gendrot
Téléphone : 01 44 32 05 74
E-mail : jacqueline.vaissiere@univ-paris3.fr ; cedric.gendrot@univ-paris3.fr

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Postdoc at University of Trento, Italy - Machine Translation/Social Computing 

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab is looking for top-candidates to fill a postdoc position. 
Candidates with significant research experience in Statistical Machine Translation and at least 
one of the following topics are invited two apply:

- Spoken Dialog Systems
- Machine Learning
- Social Computing

The candidate will work with SIS lab members and European partners on
an upcoming research project addressing multilingual portability of spoken
conversational systems via machine translation and social computing.

The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to the
analysis and interpretation of diverse signals ( e.g. speech, text,
biosignals, multimodal ) to support human-human and human-machine
interactive systems. The SIS Lab has state-of-the-art technology
infrastructure and collaborations with premiere national, international
research centers and industry research labs.

For more info SIS lab's research projects
visit the lab website: http://sisl.disi.unitn.it.

LANGUAGE

The official language of the Department and the lab is English.

SALARY

Postdoc salary are in the range of 30K-50K/year (gross) depending on
background and experience. Research fellowship may benefit from tax exemptions. 

DEADLINE:

May 1 , 2012 

HOW TO APPLY:

All applicants should have good very programming and math skills and used
to project team work. Interested applicants should send their

1) CV along with
2) their transcripts
3) have three reference letters sent to:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it 
For more info:
Lab web page: http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/
Department : http://disi.unitn.it/
Local Information: http://international.unitn.it/welcome-services/cost-living


University of Trento
The University of Trento (ww.unitn.it) is constantly ranked as premiere
Italian graduate and undergraduate university institution.
University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

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Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Speech Technology
Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Speech Technology supported by the EPSRC Programme Grant Natural Speech Technology (NST, http://www.natural-speech-technology.org) and the EU Integrated Project EU-Bridge (http://www.eu-bridge.eu). NST is a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Sheffield, whose objective is to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in speech technology by making it more natural, approaching human levels of reliability, adaptability and conversational richness. EU-Bridge is a large scale European collaboration which aims to develop automatic transcription and translation technology to permit the development of innovative multimedia captioning and translation services of audiovisual documents between European and non-European languages.  The researchers will be part of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR, http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk).

The successful candidate should have or be near completion a PhD in speech processing, computer science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. They must have a background in statistical modelling and machine learning, research experience in speech recognition and/or speech synthesis, excellent programming skills, and research publications in international journals or conferences.

Experience in acoustic modelling or language modelling for speech recognition or speech synthesis is essential. A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: multilingual speech recognition; subspace Gaussian mixture models; adaptation techniques for acoustic or language modelling; experience of the design, construction and evaluation of speech recognition or speech synthesis systems; distant speech recognition; deep neural networks; and familiarity with software tools including HTK, Kaldi, HTS, or Festival.

Fixed Term: 30 months
Closing date for applications: 10 April 2012

For further details and to apply: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3015397

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Senior Researcher in Speech Technology
Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for the post of Senior Researcher in Speech Technology on the EPSRC programme grant Natural Speech Technology (NST, http://www.natural-speech-technology.org/). NST is a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Sheffield, whose objective is to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in speech technology by making it more natural, approaching human levels of reliability, adaptability and conversational richness.

You should have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in speech processing, computer science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You must have a background in statistical modelling and machine learning, research experience in speech recognition and/or speech synthesis, excellent programming skills, and a strong publications record in international journals and conferences. In addition, experience of project development and project leadership in a research context, together with excellent communication, presentation, and organisational skills are highly desirable.

You will be part of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR, http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk), leading work on novel statistical modelling and machine learning for speech technology. We are interested in research on either large vocabulary conversational speech recognition, or on natural expressive speech synthesis. This will include design, implementation and evaluation of novel algorithms and models for speech recognition or speech synthesis, and testing of algorithms on 'real-world' data and tasks obtained from the NST user group. The work will involve close collaboration with other researchers across the three NST partners.

Fixed Term: 3 years
Closing date for applications: 10 April 2012

For further details and to apply: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3015400

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4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research

Applications are invited for 4 PhD fellowships in the area of
statistical spoken dialogue systems funded by the Czech Government.
The students will join the Institute of Formal and Applied
Linguistics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with an
anticipated start date of October 1st, 2012.

Topic description: In recent years, it has been suggested that
statistical approach to spoken dialogue system offer a framework to
naturally handle inherent uncertainty in the human speech. The two
main advantages of statistical methods are increased robustness in
noisy conditions and more natural behaviour learned from data.
However, the current methods need large corpora effectively preventing
these methods to be used for complex dialogue systems occurring in
real-life. The successful PhD candidates will investigate and
implement statistical models and methods with the aim of increasing
the efficiency of the learning process and reducing the need for large
corpora. The conducted research will cover areas of spoken language
understanding, dialogue management, and natural language processing.

Skills: Candidates should hold a master degree in a relevant area,
such as computer science, mathematics, engineering  or linguistics. A
strong mathematical background, excellent programming skills (e.g.
C/C++, Java, MATLAB, and various scripting languages under Linux
environment), aptitude for creative research and autonomy are
expected. Experience in machine learning, Bayesian methods, and
natural language processing is a plus.

The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics is a top-level
research group working in the area of computational linguistics and
natural language processing. During the fellowship, there will be good
opportunities to attend international conferences and workshops. The
formal applications should be submitted before June 1. Prospective
candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Dr Filip Jurcicek
(jurcicek@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) as soon as possible to obtain details
about the application process, the institute, and the research
opportunities.
Additional information is available here:
http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs.

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PhD Student 'Increasing Robustness of Speech Recognition' (1,0 fte)

Faculty of Arts Vacancy number: 23.02.12 Closing date: 1 April 2012

Responsibilities

As a PhD student you will participate in the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network Investigating Speech Processing In Realistic Environments (INSPIRE). This network provides research opportunities for 13 PhD students and 3 postdocs. You will become a member of an international team of researchers whose aim is to gain a better understanding of how listeners recognize speech, even under non-ideal circumstances. You will contribute to urgently needed solutions that help alleviate the serious communication problems that arise, especially for older and hearing-impaired persons, when different combinations of 'adverse' conditions affect the speech processing system. As a PhD student you will conduct research as part of a project called ’Increasing robustness of speech recognition by using multiple signal representations’. Speech processing in the human brain presumably involves competition between multiple, intermediate signal representations. The redundancy of these different representations are assumed to help improve the robustness of recognition. In some cases, however, they may lead to conflicting interpretations resulting in intelligibility problems. The goal of this PhD project is to investigate to what extent human recognition errors with regard to speech in ’adverse’ conditions can be replicated by machines that were trained on multiple input representations which are partially redundant.

Work environment

The project will be carried out at the Centre for Language and Speech Technology (CLST). CLST is a research unit within the Faculty of Arts of Radboud University Nijmegen and hosts a large international group of senior researchers and PhD students who conduct research at the frontier of science and develop innovative applications.

What we expect from you

You should: - hold a Master's degree in engineering or science; - have a strong background in machine learning (experience with dynamic Bayesian networks would be an advantage), mathematical and/or statistical modelling, and signal processing; - have excellent programming skills; - be willing to spend several months at the Technical University of Denmark. Prior exposure to courses in linguistics or speech- or hearing-related fields would be an advantage. Furthermore, you should comply with the rules set forward by the FP7 Marie Curie ITNs, i.e. you should: - not have resided of performed your main research activity in the Netherlands for more than 12 months in the last three years; - be willing to work in at least one other country in the INSPIRE network; - have less than 4 years of research experience since you obtained your Master’s degree, and not hold a PhD.

What we have to offer

We offer you: - employment: 1,0 fte; - in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus; - the starting salary is €2,042 per month on a full-time basis; the salary will increase to €2,492 per month in the third year; - in addition to the salary, you will receive travel and training allowances on the basis of generous Marie

Curie ITN provisions; - duration of the contract: 18 months with the possibility of extension by another 18 months.

Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions

(http://www.ru.nl/newstaff/working_at_radboud/conditions_of/)?

The Radboud University is an equal opportunity employer. Female researchers are strongly encouraged to apply for this vacancy.

Would you like to know more?

Further information on: Investigating Speech Processing In Realistic Environments (http://www.ru.nl/clst/projects/speech/inspire/) Dr. Bert Cranen, assistant professor Speech science Telephone: +31 24 3612904 E-mail: B.Cranen@let.ru.nl

Applications

Are you interested? Please include with your application: - a CV; - a 2-page description of your research interests explaining why the INSPIRE goals appeal to you, how the INSPIRE team may benefit from your participation, and your career perspectives as expected from INSPIRE; - university transcripts; - names and email addresses of two potential referees (or alternatively letters of recommendation). It is Radboud University Nijmegen's policy to only accept applications by e-mail. Please send your application, stating vacancy number 23.02.12, to vacatures@let.ru.nl, for the attention of drs. M.J.M. van Nijnatten, before 1 April 2012.

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3 Post-doctoral positions available in the 'Human Language Technologies - HLT' Research Unit at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Center for Information Technology.

Workplace description:

The Human Language Technology is a multi-disciplinary research unit that addresses the automatic processing of human language for a range of tasks. In particular, the research unit focuses on: automatic speech recognition, machine translation and content processing.

The HLT unit has been developing state-of-the-art technology in all the main research areas it operates in. The group has consistently performed well in several international evaluations, and is currently engaged in international projects for open source software development (e.g. the Moses platform for statistical machine translation). The unit also provides technological support and high-level services in order to optimize the internal research activities, namely a shared and efficient computing environment, software tools, up to the creation and management of large scale linguistic resources.

The HLT group is part of the larger network of research labs focusing on Human Language Technologies and related domains in the Trento region, that is quickly becoming one of the areas with the highest concentration of researchers in HLT and related fields anywhere in Europe.

More information about the HLT Unit is available at http://hlt.fbk.eu

The HLT Research Unit, is looking for 3 candidates to carry out research activities in the field of

Textual Inferences, Machine Translation and Speech Recognition. Each research position will be funded through the following European research projects:

MateCat: http://www.matecat.com

EU-Bridge: http://www.eu-bridge.eu

EXCITEMENT: website in progress

Open positions:

A Postdoctoral position in Textual Inferences

(Ref.Code HLT_PostDoc2012_TI)

The candidate is expected to carry out research activities in the context of the EU-funded project EXCITEMENT on multilingual semantic processing. The goal of the EXCITEMENT project is to develop generic semantic 'engines' or platforms for robust textual inference that are applicable across languages and linguistic frameworks. These inference platforms will be leveraged for unsupervised text exploration on customer interaction data. Concrete systems will be developed

for English, German, and Italian. Project partners are Bar-Ilan University, DFKI Saarbrücken, University of Heidelberg, Almawave S.r.l, NICE Systems, and OMQ GmbH.

The selected candidate will join the FBK research group with the aim of advancing the state of the art on component-based textual entailment.

A Postdoctoral position in Machine Translation

(Ref.Code HLT_PostDoc2012_MT)

The candidate is expected to contribute original research results inside leading edge international projects. The aim is to advance the state of the art in the integration of statistical MT in computer assisted translation and in adaptive MT, by drawing ideas and contributions from different areas, such as machine learning, statistical language processing, high performance computing, etc.

A Postdoctoral position in Speech Recognition

(Ref.Code HLT_PostDoc2012_SR)

The candidate is expected to contribute original research results inside a leading edge international project. The aim is to advance the state-of-the-art in multilingual speech processing by improving acoustic modelling, language modelling, and adaptation to different domains, conditions and genres. The contribution will be evaluated on application scenarios that include both efficient annotation of audiovisual archives and live processing of audio streams.

Job requirements:

 Applicants should have a PhD degree related to any of the specific research areas mentioned (computational linguistics, speech processing or related fields)

 Experience in statistical modelling, speech processing or machine learning (preferable on approaches applied to NLP tasks)

 Experience in distributed software development (open source)

 Skills in experimental work and development of algorithms

 Ability to work and deliver in funded research projects

 Oral and written proficiency in English

In adherence to FBK's policy to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given preference.

Employment:

Contract type: Full time, 30-month contract (may be extended up to 6 months).

Number of positions: 3

Gross salary: from 37,500 to 41,500 €per year (depending on the candidate’s experience)

Benefits: 28 vacation days per year, flexi-time, company subsidized cafeteria or meal vouchers, internal car park, welcome office support for visa formalities, accommodation, social security, etc., reductions on bank accounts, public transportation, sport, accommodation and language courses fees.

Start date: Spring 2012

Location: Povo, Trento (Italy)

Application process:

To apply online, please send your detailed CV (.pdf format) including a list of publications, a statement of research interests and contact information for at least 2 references. Please include in your CV your authorization for the handling of the your personal information as per the Personal data Protection Code, Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 June 2003.

Applications must be sent to jobs@fbk.eu

Emails should have the reference code related to the position of interest (

HLT_PostDoc2012_TI, HLT_PostDoc2012_MT or HLT_PostDoc2012_SR)

Application deadline: 9 April 2012

Short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Non-selected applicants will be notified of their exclusion at the end of the selection process.

Please note that FBK may contact short-listed candidates who were not selected for the current openings within a period of 6 months for any selection process for similar positions.

For transparency purposes, the name of the selected candidate, upon his/her acceptance of the position, will be published on the FBK website at the bottom of the selection notice

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The Speech Processing and Transmission Lab (LPTV, Laboratorio de Procesamiento y Transmisión de Voz) at Universidad de Chile,Santiago,Chile, is looking for post-doc researchers in the following fields:

Robust speech recognition

Robust speaker verification

Second language learning assessment

The grants are funded by Conicyt (Chilean funding Agency):  http://www.conicyt.cl

The applicant are required to present a brief research proposal prepared in collaboration with the director of the LPTV. For further information, contact:

Néstor Becerra Yoma, Ph.D.

Professor

Speech Processing and Transmission Laboratory

Department of  Electrical  Engineering

Universidad de Chile

Av. Tupper 2007,POBox412-3

Santiago,Chile

Tel. +56 2 978 4205

Fax. +56 2 695 3881

E-mail: nbecerra@ing.uchile.cl

http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~labptvoz/

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