[Kaldi-developers] Postdoctoral research positions in speech recognition and speech synthesis in Edinburgh

[Arnab G. <ar...@gm...>]

Hi all,

there are two open positions at the University of Edinburgh. For the
ASR position, experience with Kaldi will be highly valued. Please
forward this to people who may be interested.

-Arnab

Postdoctoral Research Positions
The Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities/

Closing date: 18th November 2013

We have open postdoctoral research positions in speech recognition and
speech synthesis, which are part of the large UK project "Natural
Speech Technology", http://www.natural-speech-technology.org.

The topics of research to be undertaken in these positions is
flexible. We encourage applicants with their own research agenda,
provided that it fits within the objective of the project, which is to
advance the state of the art in speech technology by making it more
natural, approaching human levels of reliability, adaptability, and
conversational richness.

SPEECH SYNTHESIS:  Our specific interests in speech synthesis include
- but are not limited to - the following:

* Machine learning for vocoding.
* Fluent speech synthesis.
* Shallow stochastic natural language generation to improve fluency.
* Beyond decision tree parameter tying, including neural network
approaches or tree intersect models.
* Use of synthetic speech in assistive technologies.


SPEECH RECOGNITION:  Our specific interests in speech recognition
include - but are not limited to - the following:

* Wide domain coverage and models which make use of rich contexts.
* Cross-lingual speech recognition.
* Neural network models.
* Adaptation and canonical modelling techniques for acoustic or
language modelling.
* Distant speech recognition.
* Approaches based on models incorporating articulatory data.


The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) is an exciting,
vibrant, interdisciplinary research centre and a great place to work.
We are part of the University of Edinburgh (QS world ranking 17th)
linking the world-class subject areas of informatics / computer
science (QS world ranking 15th) and linguistics (QS world ranking 5th)

Founded in 1984, CSTR is concerned with research in all areas of
speech technology including speech recognition, speech synthesis,
speech signal processing, information access, multimodal interfaces
and dialogue systems. We have many significant collaborations with the
wider community of researchers in speech science, language, cognition
and machine learning for which Edinburgh is renowned, and a wide
network of collaborators across the globe.

For further details, and links to the online application procedure
please visithttp://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities/

Informal enquiries about these positions should be made to Prof Steve
Renals (s.r...@ed...) or to Prof Simon King
(Sim...@ed...).