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Research Center on Language and Speech Technologies and its Applications
(TALP, www.talp.upc.es )

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, www.upc.es )

The TALP Research Center offers 8 PhD student positions to work on its project
ALIADO: Speech and language technologies for a personal assistant, funded by
the Spanish Government (TIC2002-04447-C02).

The main topics of interest are:

*Robust modelling of speech signal in adverse environments for speech
recognition. Robustness against channel distortion.

*Acoustic-phonetic modelling of speech for a Spanish multidialectal speech
recognition system.

*Optimization and saving of computacional resources for Text-to-Speech
converters.

*Both speech-to-speech and text-to-text stochastic translation between Spanish
and English.

For further information, please contact José B. Mariño Acebal
(canton@talp.upc.es).

To apply, send curriculum-vitae not later than November 15th.
Please, mention the topic(s) of interest.
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Dr. Nuria Castell Arinyo

TALP Research Center
Departament LSI - Seccio d'IA
UPC - Campus Nord
Modul C5 - despatx 220
Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3
08034 Barcelona
Spain

telf. (directe) 34 - 93 401 70 15
telfs. (Secr.) 34 - 93 401 69 94 / 79 93
fax 34 - 93 401 70 14

castell@lsi.upc.es OR castell@talp.upc.es
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~nlp
http://www.talp.upc.es/

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