10 October: fyi -- postgraduate funding in Speech, France
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Description
Eurecom (http://www.eurecom.fr) is an international teaching and
research institute , founded in 1991 as a joint initiative by
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST- Paris).
It welcomes students from several engineering schools and universities
ENST Paris, ENST Brittany, INT Evry, EPFL,
ETHZ (Zurich), Helsinki University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino...
They receive an education in Communications systems (Networking,
Multimedia, Security, Mobile Communications, Web services...)
Professors, lecturers and PhD students conduct research in these
domains. Speech processing is under the responsibility of Professor
Chris Wellekens in the Dpt Multimedia Communications.
Spoken languages at the Institute are french and english for the
lectures. English is the usual language for research exchanges.
Speech research involves speaker identification using speaker clustering
or eigenvoices, phonemic variabilities of lexicons,
optimal feature extraction, Bayesian networks and variational
techniques, navigation in audio databases (segmentation in speakers,
wordspotting,...)
Job description.
A European project STREP/ 6th FPin the last phase of negotitation with
the Commission. Eight labs and companies are partners:
Multitel (B), Eurecom (F), France Telecon R/D (F), University of
Oldenburg (D), Babeltechnologies (B), Loquendo (I),
Politecnico di Torino (I), LIA (F).
The aim of the project is to analyse the reasons why recognizers are
unable to reach the human recognition rates even in the case of
lack of semantic content. All weaknesses will be analyzed at the level
of feature extraction, phone and lexical models. Focus will be
put on intrinsic variabilities of speech in quite and noisy environment
as well in read and spontaneous speech. The analysis will not be
restricted to tests on several databases with different features and
models but will go into the detailed behavior of the algorithms
and models. Suggestions of new solutions will arise and be
experimented. The duration of the project is for 3 years.
The Speech group is looking for a top level PhD student who has a good
knowledge of speech processing. Preference is for a student who worked
in speech in his/her predoctoral school or worked on a speech project
for his graduation project. He/she must have an excellent
practice of signal and speech analysis as well as a good knowledge of
optimal classification using Bayesian criteria. Fluency in
english is mandatory (write, understand and speak). Ability to
work in a small team is also required. The project is planned to start
in January 2004.
Application.
-send a detailed resume
-send a copy of your graduation project report or Master thesis (either
as a a printed document or as a CDROM) DO NOT attach your report in
an e-mail!
-send a copy of your diploma
-send the names and email addresses of two referees.
-send the list of your publications (if any)
to Professor Chris J. Wellekens, Dpt of Multimedia Communications, 2229
route des Cretes, BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex.
Additional informations
Contact Professor Chris Wellekens at christian.wellekens@eurecom.fr.
(http://www.eurecom.fr/~welleken)
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