18 September: fyi -- speech, CMU
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Position for Research Programmer in Speech Recognition (Carnegie
Mellon University)
The Janus speech group at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies
Institute is offering a research programmer position to support
research on algorithms for the near-automatic development of speech
recognition systems. We work on large amounts of diverse,
multi-lingual data (speech, text, and databases) in highly parallel
environments, offering a great opportunity to perform highly visible
work in the research, government, and industrial communities.
The work involves building speech recognizers in unknown languages
rapidly, using data of unknown properties and quality, with minimal
supervision. Some language-specific knowledge will be given, and
recognizers for similar languages might be available, however the
process involves both analyzing the language, and building a
recognizer. This multi-site and multi-year effort is led by Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, with academic and industrial partners
in Silicon Valley, Baltimore, and Germany.
While grounded in engineering of speech recognition algorithms, the
position also requires interest in and collaboration with linguistics,
natural language processing, semantics, databases, and the efficient
handling of large data sets. All of these topics are being worked on
at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute, as part of the
same overall effort.
Initial appointments will normally be for a duration of 12 months, but
are renewable contingent to the availability of suitable funding. We
are offering a first-class research environment in an outstanding
school and department, and the opportunity to work in an international
team. Successful candidates will have a curious mind, great coding
skills, previous experience in implementing machine learning and
speech recognition algorithms, strong analytical skills, as well as
experience in working on large software projects. He or she will be
self-motivated, a good communicator and work well in international
teams, and be willing to participate in evaluations.
The position is available immediately, and until filled. The candidate
will need to be e-verified in order to be allowed to work on this
project. Compensation will be according to qualification, and in line
with Carnegie Mellon's general rules and regulations.
Further information can be found at:
- https://cmu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=9504
- http://www.is.cs.cmu.edu/
- http://lti.cs.cmu.edu/
Please send questions to:
- Alex Waibel, ahw@cs.cmu.edu
- Florian Metze, fmetze@cs.cmu.edu
Florian Metze
Assistant Research Professor
Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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