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The Speech Technology Group at Toshiba Research Europe Ltd,
Cambridge Research Laboratory is looking to fill the
following posts. A new group located in the heart of
Cambridge city centre, the TREL STG focuses on developing
and creating innovative algorithms for automatic speech
recognition and text-to-speech synthesis with an emphasis
on European languages.

NLP/Computational Linguist Position
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This post is for text processing and prosody modelling in
a TTS system. Candidates should have a good honours degree.
Ideally, candidates will have a higher degree in a relevant
subject and industrial experience.

Required skills:
- Strong knowledge of shallow parsing and POS tagging
- Knowledge of pause prediction, prosodic chunking,
probabalistic models and decision trees preferred.
- Strong software skills C/C++
- Experience with low memory footprint coding desirable
- Knowledge of English required and of at least one
other European language preferred

Research Engineer Position
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This post is for building language dependent components of
a speech recognition system e.g. acoustic models, lexicons,
grammars. Candidates should have a good honours degree.
Ideally, candidates will have a higher degree in a relevant
subject and industrial experience.

Required skills:
- Good knowledge of ASR
- Experience with training acoustic models, creating
pronunciation lexicons and tuning ASR grammars and
systems preferred.
- Experience using HTK desirable.
- Good software skills C/C++, Perl, Python
- Knowledge of English required and of at least one
other European language preferred

The successful candidates will be practically-minded, innovative,
and will be able to interact effectively within a group
environment. An attractive salary and benefit package will be
offered.

Please send your CV with the names of three referees by email to
stg-jobs@crl.toshiba.co.uk

Kate Knill, Group Leader, Speech Technology Group,
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge Research Lab,
St George House, 1 Guildhall St, Cambridge CB2 3NH, England
T: +44.1223.376900 F: +44.1223.376909

http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/crl/index.html

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