11 July: fyi -- Speech, France

Index of July 2000 | Index of year: 2000 | Full index


The Speech Synthesis team in France Telecom Research & Development
Center is looking for a one year full-time Research Engineer position,
beginning as soon as possible.
The job profile is described below :

Research and Development Engineer in charge of automatic prosodic
processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis.

Main missions :
· Contribute to the development of algorithmic solutions for automatic
prosody learning.
· Integrate improvements in the FTR&D Text-to-Speech system.

Main activities :
· Develop new prosodic modules for Text-to-Speech synthesis software.
· Interact with the group to specify and to develop new linguistic
modules for the FTR&D Text-to-Speech synthesis software
· Participate to the customisation of the system.
· Contribute in the survey on existing speech synthesis products and
services.

Qualifications required :
· Programming experience using C/C++
· Interest in computational linguistic
· Strong background in automatic speech processing
· Near-native in French

Location of Job
France Telecom R&D, Lannion (North Brittany) France

Contact :
Stéphanie de TOURNEMIRE, tel:+33 2 96 05 31 36
stephanie.detournemire@rd.francetelecom.fr
Thierry MOUDENC, tel: + 33 2 96 05 16 59
thierry.moudenc@rd.francetelecom.f

--
~~~~ Thierry Moudenc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tel: +33 2 96 05 16 59
Fax: +33 2 96 05 35 30
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Index of July 2000 | Index of year: 2000 | Full index