Dear all We have an open postdoc position here at CSTR. Applicants need a background in HMM-based speech processing (ideally for speech synthesis, but expertise in HMM-based speech recognition would also be appropriate). The current position is for 24 months, but we hope to be able to extend this with additional funding. Junichi An Open Position for Postdoctoral Research Associate in Speech Synthesis The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) University of Edinburgh This post holder will contribute to our ongoing research in statistical parametric ("HMM-based") speech synthesis, working closely with Principal Investigators Dr. Junichi Yamagishi and Prof. Simon King, in addition to other CSTR researchers. The focus of this position will be to conduct research into methods for generating highly intelligible synthetic speech, for a variety of applications, in the context of three ongoing and intersecting projects in CSTR: The "SALB" project concerns the generation of extremely fast, but highly intelligible, synthetic speech for blind children. This is a joint project with the Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna (FTW) in Austria, and is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. The "Voice Bank" project concerns the building of synthetic speech using a very large set of recordings of amateur speakers (‘voice donors’) in order to produce personalised voices for people whose speech is disordered, due to Motor Neurone Disease. This is a joint project with the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research, and is funded by the Medical Research Council. The main tasks will be to conduct research into automatic intelligibility assessment of disordered speech and to devise automatic methods for data selection from the large voice bank. The "Simple4All" project is a large multi-site EU FP7 project led by CSTR which is developing methods for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning for speech synthesis, in order to create complete text-to-speech systems for any language or domain without relying on expensive linguistic resources, such as labelled data. The main tasks here will be to further the overall goals of the project, including contributing original research ideas. There is considerable flexibility in the research directions available within the Simple4All project and the potential for the post holder to form a network of international collaborators. The successful candidate should have a PhD (or be near completion) in computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, or a related discipline. He or she should have strong programming skills and experience with statistical parametric speech synthesis. Whilst the advertised position is for 24 months (due to the particular projects that the post-holder will contribute to), CSTR is a stable, well-funded and successful group with a tradition of maintaining long-term support for ongoing lines of research and of building the careers of its research fellows. We expect to obtain further grant-funded research projects in the future. Informal enquiries about this position to either Dr. Junichi Yamagishi (jyamagis@xxxxxxxxxxxx) or Prof. Simon King (Simon.King@xxxxxxxx). Apply Online: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=013063 Closing date: 10 Jun 2013 ====================================================================== Lecturer The Centre for Speech Technology Research University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum 10 Crichton Street EDINBURGH EH8 9AB United Kingdom Room: Room 3.06 E-mail: jyamagis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44-131-651-5637 Associate Professor National Institute of Informatics 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430 Room: 18F 1804 Email: jyamagis@xxxxxxxxx TEL: +81 3 4212 2576 |
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