[mary-dev] Postdoctoral Research Position in Speech Synthesis

[Ingmar Steiner]

** Full-time Postdoctoral Research Position in Speech Synthesis 
(Saarbrücken, Germany) **

[Apologies for duplicate postings]

Saarland University’s Collaborative Research Center SFB-1102: 
"Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" [1] is seeking to hire one 
full-time postdoctoral researcher (100% TV-L 13). The role of the 
postdoctoral researcher is to implement models of information density 
using speech corpora, and integrate them into an existing TTS platform. 
He or she will leverage and extend tools for rapid and incremental NLP 
and voice component assembly and parameter optimization, and measure the 
resulting TTS performance using both automatic techniques and evaluation 
studies involving human listeners.

* Requirements: *
The candidate should hold a PhD in computer science, electrical 
engineering, computational linguistics, or a related field, with a 
strong background in speech and natural language processing. Experience 
with speech technology applications, particularly TTS synthesis, is 
mandatory.
Moreover, the candidate should have excellent software engineering 
skills, including object-oriented programming, distributed version 
control, unit testing, bug tracking, continuous integration, and build 
automation. Previous involvement in collaborative development on an 
open-source project is a plus. Good spoken and written command of 
English is required.

The position is for 2 years (renewable for another 1.75 years), with a 
preferred start date of October 2014. The position is open until filled, 
but we will start to review applications by mid-July.

* Contact: *
Please email applications in PDF format citing reference number W861 and 
project C5 (including a CV, list of publications, two references, and a 
statement of interest) directly to

Ingmar Steiner <steiner at coli.uni-saarland.de>

[1] http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/

/**
  * Dr. Ingmar Steiner
  *
  * Head of Independent Research Group
  * Multimodal Speech Processing
  * Cluster of Excellence MMCI
  *
  * Senior Researcher
  * Language Technology Lab
  * German Research Center for
  * Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH)
  *
  * Principal Investigator
  * Collaborative Research Center SFB-1102
  * Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
  *
  * Department of Computer Science
  * Department of Computational Linguistics & Phonetics
  * Saarland University
  *
  * Campus C7.4, Room 3.01
  * D-66123 Saarbrücken
  * @tel: +49-681-302-70028
  * @fax: +49-681-302-4317
  * @web: http://coli.uni-saarland.de/~steiner/
  */