10 May: fyi -- speech synthesis, California
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Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Speech Synthesis
Stanford University seeks to hire an outstanding postdoctoral
researcher immediately in computer speech synthesis. Candidates should
be recent PhDs in a research area related to Spoken Language
Processing or Natural Language Processing, in computer science,
linguistics, or electrical engineering. Strong computational and
mathematical skills and interest and experience with prosodic analysis
are especially desirable. Postdocs participating in this project will
be joining an active interdisciplinary speech and language processing
community with strengths in speech recognition, statistical natural
language processing, dialogue understanding, and psycholinguistic
models of language processing and development.
The project, ''Expressive Prosody for Unit-selection Speech
Synthesis'', is new, run by Dan Jurafsky
(http://www.stanford.edu/~jurafsky) in the Linguistics Department at
Stanford and by Simon King and Mark Steedman at the University of
Edinburgh. Our goals are to generate prosody appropriate for
communicating specific meanings and information structures, including
generation of appropriate pitch accents, full and reduced syllables on
function and content words.
The position is initially for 1 year, with a second year renewal
possible. To apply, email a CV, a one-page statement of research
interests, names and contact information for three references, and a
cover letter that briefly summarizes qualifications. Applications may
be sent to Allen Sciutto at: allen.sciutto@stanford.edu
Stanford University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action
employer.
Address for Applications:
Attn: Allen Sciutto
Linguistics Department, Margaret Jacks Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
United States of America
Position is open until filled.
Contact Information:
Allen Sciutto
Email: allen.sciutto@stanford.edu
Tel: 650-723-4284
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/postdoc.html
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