POST-DOC POSITION (18 months) - Forensic Voice Comparison (VoxCrim project): ability, limitations and specificities of listeners in speaker identification tasks
Laboratoire Parole et Langage (CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université) ? Aix-en-Provence, France

CONTEXT
The post-doc will be carried out within the framework of the VoxCrim project, funded by an ANR (Agence nationale de la recherche) grant (2017-2021, https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-17-CE39-0016). VoxCrim focuses on national security and legal/justice applications and aims to provide a validated scientific objective framework for all types of forensic voice comparison methods (automatic and phonetic). The goal is to develop certified standards to determine the specific areas in which voice comparison methods are applicable. The project includes two complementary subject areas: 1. the proposal of methodological standards to homogenize the expertise of voice comparison in a judicial environment, 2. the development of basic research in the fields of automatic speech processing and phonetics (speaker characteristics in the production and perception of speech).
The post-doc will participate in the second subject area (speaker characteristics in the production and perception of speech). Two questions need to be answered: What are the abilities and limits of listeners in speaker identification tasks? Which cues do listeners use to identify speakers?

TASKS
The main objective will be to conduct perception experiments aimed at assessing the ability of listeners in several speaker identification tasks.
The post-doctoral fellow will:
-    design experimental protocols
-    create and manipulate acoustic stimuli
-    run experiments and collect data
-    process data and perform statistical analysis
Finally, results will be presented at conferences and published in international journals.

WORK ENVIRONNEMENT
The postdoctoral fellow will work at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (http://www.lpl-aix.fr/), a laboratory whose research interests are extremely varied (including linguistics, phonetics, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and computer science). He or she will benefit from this stimulating environment and interact with all the members of the laboratory (faculty members, other post-docs, engineers, doctoral students, etc.). He or she will have the opportunity to discover all the projects of the laboratory.

EXPECTED PROFILE
The postdoctoral fellow will have a PhD in the speech sciences and/or in psychoacoustics (auditory measurements, audio signal processing). A strong background in data processing and statistics is also be required. A good command of French and English will also be appreciated.

18 months. Beginning in autumn 2019
Monthly salary: ~?1900  net (depending on experience)
Location : Laboratoire Parole et Langage (http://www.lpl-aix.fr/), Aix Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-en-Provence, France
For additional information: christine.meunier@univ-amu.fr

-Application: CV and cover letter
-Send application as soon as possible to christine.meunier@univ-amu.fr

Supervisors: Dr. Christine Meunier, CNRS Researcher and Dr. Alain Ghio, Research Engineer - Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France.