Postdoc: Speech Recognition at Sheffield University (UK)

[Steve Renals]

University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science

Research Associate in Continuous Speech Recognition (Ref: R1039)

Applications are invited for the above post which is tenable for three
years from February 1997.  The post is part of an EU Long Term
Research project (THISL) that will develop a system for the indexing
and retrieval of information from large speech recordings and TV/radio
broadcasts.  The main emphasis of the work will be developing hybrid
connectionist/HMM algorithms and systems for very large vocabulary
broadcast speech recognition. 

Candidates for the post will be expected to hold a PhD 
in a relevant discipline (e.g. Electrical Engineering, Computer
Science, Applied Mathematics), or to have acquired equivalent
experience.  The successful candidate will probably have had research
experience in the area of speech recognition, neural computing or
language modelling.  

Salary will be in the range \pounds 14,317 to \pounds 19,948.  
Closing date for applications:  7 January 1997.

For further information about the post contact Steve Renals 
<s.renals at dcs.shef.ac.uk> or on the web, 
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/spandh/projects/thisl.html

Application forms are available are available from the Director of
Human Resources, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield 
S10 2TN, UK, tel: +44-114-279-9800, email: jobs at sheffield.ac.uk,
citing reference R1039.

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