Researcher and Postdoc Positions
Project B2 "speech & more"
The ftw. (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Telecommunications
Research Center Vienna) is a cooperative research center involving
3 institutes of the Vienna University of Technology, 14
telecommunications
companies, and the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. More
information
can be found at http://www.ftw.at/.
Task Description
Conduct advanced research and development in the area of spoken and
multimodal
dialog systems, including combining speech dialog with mobile multimedia
applications (UMTS), pronunciation modeling, and noise cancellation. The
positions provide the opportunity to work together with leading
companies in the
fields of telecommunications and speech technology. The positions will
become
available between now and the beginning of next year.
Required Qualifications
* Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal dialog
systems
* Masters or doctorate degree in one of the relevant disciplines (i.e.,
computer
science, communications, phonetics or computational linguistics)
* Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication skills
Additional Qualifications
A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would be
preferred:
* Knowledge of internet protocols, XML, VoiceXML
* Java / C++ experience
* Experience in usability engineering and usability testing
* Experience with spoken language corpora
* Software engineering and project management skills
* Experience working in collaborative industry/academia projects
* Knowledge of German
Applications and inquiries should be directed to
Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
Dr. Markus Kommenda (Managing Director), kommenda@ftw.at
or Dr. Gregor Erbach (Project Manager), erbach@ftw.at
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Dr. Gregor Erbach gregor.erbach@ftw.at
Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien FTW Tel. +43/699-10389005
(Vienna Telecommunications Research Centre) Fax: +43/1/5052830-99
Maderstrasse 1/9, A-1040 Wien, Austria http://speech.ftw.at/~gor
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