24 August: fyi -- multimedia, Vienna

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Researcher and Postdoc Positions
in Human Interfaces for Mobile Multimedia Communications

ftw. (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien,
Telecommunications Research Center Vienna) is a cooperative
research center involving telecommunications companies,
departments of the Vienna University of Technology, and the
Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. More information can be
found at http://www.ftw.at/.

Task

Conduct research and development in the area of voice and
multimodal dialog systems, including combining voice dialog with
mobile data services and multimedia for GPRS/UMTS; noise
cancellation; distributed speech recognition; pronunciation
modeling. The precise topic will be negotiated based on the
applicant's qualifications. The positions provide the opportunity to
work together with leading companies in the fields of
telecommunications and speech technology. These one- and two-
year positions are offered under the Marie Curie Industry Host
Fellowship scheme of the European Commission and will become
available between now and 2003.

Required Qualifications

* Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal
dialog systems
* Masters or doctorate degree in one of the relevant disciplines
(computer science, communications, computational linguistics,
phonetics, mathematics)
* Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication
skills
* Meet eligibility requirements of the Marie Curie scheme - check at
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_grad.htm
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_doct.htm

Additional Qualifications

A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would be
preferred:
* Speech signal processing
* User interface design and usability testing
* SIP/H.323, JAIN, PARLAY, TCP/IP, WAP, HTML, XML, VoiceXML
* GSM, GPRS, UMTS infrastructures
* Java / C++ experience
* Software engineering and project management skills
* Experience working in collaborative industry/academia projects
* Knowledge of German

Applications and inquiries should be directed to
Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.)
Dr Markus Kommenda (Managing Director), kommenda@ftw.at, or
DI Georg Niklfeld (Speech Proc. Project Manager), niklfeld@ftw.at
Donau City Str. 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43/699 10389 005

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