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Postdoc and research opportunities at LORIA, Nancy
The LORIA Speech Group (http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole) (CNRS
& INRIA & Nancy Universities) conducts a broad program of
research in speech analysis and recognition, language modeling
and learning of foreign languages.
Three positions are available:
1.A Post-Doctoral appointment in prosody. The work will focus
on the development of tools which enable the comparison of the
prosody realized by a native speaker from that realized by a
non-native speaker. These tools are intended to be used in a
system for teaching the prosody of french as a foreign
language. The ideal candidate should have a recent or expected
PhD in Computer Science in the field of speech synthesis or
speech processing.
2. Two research engineer appointments in speech recognition,
with an emphasis on acoustic modeling and recognition
algorithms of non-native speakers. The ideal candidate should
have a recent or expected PhD in Computer Science in the field
of speech recognition.
The activities of our team are organized around two themes.
1.Speech analysis: Our research concerns the analysis and
perception of acoustic signals, the acoustic-to-articulatory
inversion and speech analysis. This research gives rise to
several current or future applications in vocal rehabilitation
therapy, improvement of hearing aids and language learning.
2.Speech modeling for automatic recognition: Our research
concerns stochastic models (HMM, stochastic trajectory models
and graphical models), language models and multiband models
which entail several current or future applications in
automatic speech recognition (in particular telephone speech
recognition), automatic dictation, text-speech alignment and
classification of the various speech signals.
Duration :
* one year for the postdoc
* two years for the research positions
To know more about this position, contact :
Yves Laprie
LORIA
615 rue du jardin botanique
54602 Villers-lès-Nancy
FRANCE
Yves.Laprie@loria.fr
Tél : +33 3 83 59 20 36
To apply: The closing date for applications September 7,
2001. The starting date is october 2001 or november
2001. Applicants should send a full CV and supporting
publications and arrange for two letters of reference to be sent
to Yves.Laprie@loria.fr
Gross wage (before-tax):
* 138000 Frs/year (21000 EUR) for the postdoc
* 168000 Frs/year (25600 EUR) for the research engineers
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