26 January: fyi -- speech, Oxford

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'Mining a Year of Speech' - Research Associate

A vacancy exists for a Research Associate with experience in speech
recognition technology, for a fixed period from 12th April 2009 to 31st
March 2010. The post holder will be part of a research team working on a
new project on forced alignment for indexing large speech corpora (in
particular, the British National Corpus), funded by the JISC under the
Digging into Data competition. The project is an international
collaboration between the Phonetics Laboratory and the Linguistic Data
Consortium, University of Pennsylvania. The post holder will be required to
undertake most of the computational work on the project, especially in the
use of forced alignment software to index 1,500 hrs of audio recordings,
and registration of the timing information in an XML data structure.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor John Coleman
(john.coleman@phon.ox.ac.uk). Further particulars, including information
about how to apply, may be obtained via the application URL, or by writing
to Celia Glyn at the address below.

?28,839 - ?35,469 p.a.

Application Deadline: 04-Feb-2010
Mailing Address for Applications:
Mrs Celia Glyn
University of Oxford Phonetics Laboratory,
41 Wellington Square,
Oxford OX12JF
United Kingdom
Web Address for Applications: http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jobs
Contact Information:
Mrs Celia Glyn
Email: celia.glyn@phon.ox.ac.uk
Phone: 01865270444

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