19 May: FYI -- PhD & Postdoc, Trinity College Dublin

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 00:42:48 +0100
From: Neasa
Subject: Re: PostDoc and PhD positions in Speech at Trinity College, Dublin

Hi all,

Apologies if the links in the previous email don't work. Please find
attached the information about the two positions *(a PostDoc position in
Speech Recognition for Irish & a PhD position on the Voice with application
in Speech Synthesis). *This information is also available at
https://jobs.tcd.ie.

All the best,
Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (anichsid@tcd.ie) & Neasa Ní Chiaráin (nichiarn@tcd.ie)



2017-05-18 17:38 GMT+01:00 Neasa :

> Hi everyone,
>
> We would be grateful if you could spread the word that we are looking to
> fill two positions in speech at the Phonetics and Speech Lab., Trinity
> College, Dublin. The PostDoc position is in Speech Recognition for Irish
> and the PhD position is for research on the Voice with application in
> Speech Synthesis.
>
> Thanks for your help with this,
>
> Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (anichsid@tcd.ie) & Neasa Ní Chiaráin (nichiarn@tcd.ie)
>
>
>
> *PostDoc and PhD positions in Trinity College, Dublin*
>
>
> *(1). 2-year PostDoc position in Speech Recognition for the Irish
> language*
>
> A funded postdoctoral position over two years is offered in the area of
> Speech Recognition. The researcher will be based at the Phonetics & Speech
> Lab, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity
> College Dublin. The research group at the Lab. is an interdisciplinary
> group with expertise in linguistic phonetics, speech engineering,
> computational linguistics, and computer science. The group is active in
> developing speech technology and resources for the Irish language (Gaelic).
> To date, text-to-speech systems have been developed for the main dialects
> of Irish, along with applications for education and disability/access, as
> part of the ABAIR initiative. The successful candidate will play a guiding
> role in the pioneering of speech recognition for Irish, harnessing the
> currently available resources and setting the foundations for fully
> developed future systems.
>
> Funding: The Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht
> Affairs
>
> See: https://jobs.tcd.ie/pls/corehrrecruit/core_document_api
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>
>
> *(2). 4-year PhD position in Voice Modelling and Speech Processing*
>
>
> The PhD researcher will be based at the Phonetics & Speech Laboratory,
> School of Linguistic, Speech & Communication Sciences, Trinity College,
> Dublin, and will work in collaboration with the speech research group. The
> principal research focus will be the extension of our in-house
> voice-analysis system, to provide more accurate characterisation of voice
> source dynamics. The focus is both on capturing natural productions and
> incorporating these in TTS systems developed for Irish at the Laboratory
> (see www.abair.ie). The research group at the Phonetics & Speech Lab. is
> an interdisciplinary group with expertise in linguistic phonetics, speech
> engineering, computational linguistics, and computer science. A major
> strand of the research focuses on the human voice. This includes both the
> development of techniques for voice analysis and empirical studies
> exploring voice prosody, i.e. the communicative use of the voice to signal
> both linguistic and emotional information. The group is also developing
> speech technology for the Irish language (Gaelic). To date, text-to-speech
> systems have been developed for dialects of Irish, along with applications
> for education and disability/access (the ABAIR initiative). Our aim is to
> work towards more flexible synthetic voices, capable of capturing features
> of human voice prosody.
>
> Funding: The Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht
> Affairs
>
> See: https://jobs.tcd.ie/pls/corehrrecruit/core_document_api
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