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6-44 (2014-06-21) 3 PhD Positions in Speech Processing at LIG/Grenoble (France)
3 PhD Positions in Speech Processing at LIG/Grenoble (France) The Study Group for Machine Translation and Automated Processing of Languages and Speech (GETALP) of LIG (Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble) offers 3 PhD Positions in Speech Processing. We are looking for outstanding young research scientists to join the group on several projects involving speech processing.
Opened Positions
You will work in the context of the ALFFA project which is really interdisciplinary since it not only gathers technology experts (LIG, LIA, VOXYGEN) but also includes fieldwork linguists/phoneticians (DDL). The PhD will focus on analysing the capabilities of existing automatic speech processing systems to investigate phonetic characteristics of languages or annotate speech (especially on mobile devices: tablets, glasses, etc) to provide an innovative digital assistant to the fieldwork linguist.
Start : Fall 2014
Duration : 36 months
Particular aspect : co-supervision with DDL lab in Lyon
Project Web Site : http://alffa.imag.fr
Team/Lab Web Sites : http://getalp.imag.fr http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
You will work on a research and development project (CASSIE) involving academic and industrial stakeholders of spoken dialog, assistive technologies, affectives sciences and social robotics. The PhD objective is to design a spoken dialogue system that will interact with a user in her/his home through an ubiquitous (physical and/or virtual) and personalized agent. This dialogue system will be corpus based, with iterative machine learning approach hydride with boostrap expert knowledge (observed from “intelligent” annotations) from spontaneous and ecological data collected in real or quasi-real environment (Smart Home) and situation (real scenario). The system will focus on the socio-affective dimensions of the interaction (socio-affective prosody, paralinguistic events, imitation, synchrony etc), especially the dynamics (timing) of the dialog… One aspect of this PhD will also focus on the comparison of the same character implemented in robot versus virtual agent for interaction (epathy aspects, etc.).
Start : Fall 2014 Duration : 36 months Contact : Veronique.Auberge@imag.fr & Benjamin.Lecouteux@imag.fr (+Laurent.Besacier@imag.fr) 3. PhD / Context-aware spoken dialogue in ambient assisted living environments
Profiles The applicants must hold a Master degree in Computational Linguistics, Computing sciences or Cognitive Sciences preferably with experience in the fields of speech processing and/or natural language processing and/or machine learning. Good background in programming will also be required.
He/she will also be involved in experimenting the technology with human participants being either French or English speakers. For this reason good English level is required as well as a good command of French. Finally effective communication skills in English, both written and verbal are mandatory. Location Grenoble is a high-tech city with 4 universities. It is located at the heart of the Alps, in outstanding scientific and natural surroundings. It is 3h by train from Paris ; 2h from Geneva ; 1h from Lyon ; 2h from Torino and is less than 1h from Lyon international airport.
Research Group Website : http://getalp.imag.fr
Dates Interviews will be held in July 2014 (until September 2014 if needed). Meetings during Interspeech 2014 in SIngapore can be also organized. |
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