3 September: fyi -- speech, IBM (Germany)
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The European Voice Technology Development organisation at IBM is
responsible for the development of current and future speech
technologies (covering speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech
understanding). These technologies are used within IBM’s telephony and
embedded solution offerings (IBM WebSphere Voice Server, Embedded
ViaVoice). To strengthen our teams we are looking for university hires
or professionals for several temporary and permanent positions as
Software Engineers in Speech Technology Processing at IBM Germany
Development.
Contact information:
Please apply through this web-link: http://www-5.ibm.com/employment/de/jobs/e1404.html
or by mail to
- Dr. Jochen Friedrich (jochen@de.ibm.com) or
- Dr. Siegfried (Jimmy) Kunzmann (kunzmann@de.ibm.com).
Job Title: Engineer in Speech Technology Development
Job description:
· Development of newest, advanced speech technologies
· Development of speech processing technologies for research and product prototypes
(Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition, Telephony/Embedded Acoustic Systems, Natural
Language Understanding, Speech Synthesis, Multilingual Speech Recognition)
· Execution of experiments for evaluation and optimisation of recognition accuracy
· Architecture, design and development of speech technology tools to simplify the
training and analysis of speech processing systems
· Fast and efficient implementation and use of newest speech technologies on different
OS platforms based on early findings from IBM Research and/or the scientific community
· Development of language specific acoustic & linguistic data & parameter sets for various
usage scenarios (Desktop, Telephony, Embedded)
· Adaptation and solving of language problems specifically for European languages
Qualifications and expertise required:
It is of advantage that you have a university degree in computer science or electrical
engineering as well as profound and applied (algorithmic) knowledge in the following areas:
· Pattern recognition
· Speech processing (recognition, synthesis, natural language understanding dialog system)
· Multi-dimensional speech signal processing
· Architecture / system-design / implementation of stochastic algorithms of speech processing
systems (HMM, statistical parser)
· acoustic & linguistic speech processing speech processing
· broad theoretical and applied knowledge (statistic, acoustic, phonetic, linguistic) in
development and research of speech recognition, synthesis and understanding systems
· PhD or comparable experience preferred
In addition, candidates should have profound, applied knowledge and experience with
one/several operating systems (Linux, Windows, cluster) and modern programming languages
(C++, XML, scripting languages)
Languages: fluent German & English, more European languages are of benefit.
Location of job: IBM Boeblingen, Germany
Closing date for application: November 30, 2004
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