5 November: fyi -- multimedia, Vienna
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2 Researcher Positions (one year)
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; digital signal
processing for multi-modal recognition; noise cancellation; robust
speech recognition;
distributed speech recognition.
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-year positions are
offered
under the Marie Curie Industry Host Fellowship scheme of the
European Commission and are available immediately. Project code: HIMM.
Required Qualifications
* Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal dialog
systems
* Masters degree in one of the relevant disciplines
(computer science, communications, electrical engineering,
computational linguistics, mathematics)
* Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication skills
* Meet the eligibility requirements of the Marie Curie scheme - please
check at
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_grad.htm before
applying
Additional Qualifications
A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would be
preferred:
* Speech signal processing
* SIP/H.323, TCP/IP, HTML, XML, VoiceXML, SALT, WAP, MMS
* GSM, UMTS infrastructures
* Java/J2ME, C++, Symbian OS, Pocket PC experience
* Software engineering 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:
+43/664 8269859
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