10.1075, Jobs: Instructors/Boston, Sp Recognition Engineers

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1075. Thu Jul 15 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1075, Jobs: Instructors/Boston, Sp Recognition Engineers

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1)
Date:  Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:38:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Carol Neidle <carol at louis-xiv.bu.edu>
Subject:  Part-time openings, Boston U.

2)
Date:  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:49:25 -0400
From:  Brion Wikes <bwikes at nuance.com>
Subject:  Applied speech Job for persons with R and D backgroud

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:38:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Carol Neidle <carol at louis-xiv.bu.edu>
Subject:  Part-time openings, Boston U.


   Boston University seeks part-time instructors to teach
   THREE courses (mixed undergraduate and graduate level)
   for spring semester of 2000:

      1) CAS LX 513  introduction to phonology
      2) CAS LX 521  introduction to morphology
      3) CAS LX 523  intermediate-level syntax

   Further information about these courses is available at
   http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/jobs.html.

   Please send letter of application, clearly indicating
   which course(s) you would be interested in teaching,
   along with cv and 3 representative publications, to:

           Prof. Carol Neidle
           Chair, Linguistics Search Committee
           Boston University
           Department of Modern Foreign Languages
           718 Commonwealth Avenue
           Boston, MA 02215

   Please also have three letters of recommendation sent
   to the same address.  Deadline for receipt of materials:
   October 10, 1999.  Ph.D. (in hand) required at time
   of application.  For further information about these
   positions, please contact carol at bu.edu.

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Carol Neidle                                   Boston University, MFLL
carol at louis-xiv.bu.edu                           718 Commonwealth Ave.
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol.html                  Boston, MA  02215
phone and fax: 617-353-6218


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:49:25 -0400
From:  Brion Wikes <bwikes at nuance.com>
Subject:  Applied speech Job for persons with R and D backgroud






(Applied) Speech Recognition Engineer
www.nuance.com
We just Launched the World's Largest Speaker Verification System for the
Home Shopping Network

 Summary:
 This is a tremendous opportunity for you to use your speech
 recognition research background to develop and deploy exciting state-of-the-art
 applications.  As a key team member you will be challenged with analyzing
 advanced applications,  optimiziing recognition system  performance , and
 project leadership.  This is an excellent chance to gain hands-on
 experience in the full life-cycle of speech application development
 including design, customer interactions, and dialog design.

 Responsibilities:
 Analyze speech data from fielded applications.
 Run experiments for optimiziing speech recognition performance.
 Run advanced experiments for proof of concept of  speech applications and
 demo's.
 Be involved with a variety of tasks including application and dialog design
 Interact with customers.

 Requirements:
 Speech recognition background or education
 Experience developing or tuning algorithms
 Fluent C and shell/perl scripts programmer
 Experience running speech recognition performance evaluations.
 Desire to be working in applied technology
 Ability to be detailed and organized
 Ability to be self-directed
 Strong problem-solving skills

 Ideal:


 HMM background
 Post-degree industrial/academic experience
 Ability to interact and communicate with customers
 C++ or Java programming
 Project leadership skills
 Good language or linguistics skills
 Exposure to dialog design, interface design

 Education:

 MS/PhD with Speech Recognition or Speaker Verification research.

 Brion Wikes, Staffing Specialist
 Nuance Communications (USA)
 Direct Phone: 650-847-7799
 E-mail: bwikes at nuance.com




Brion Wikes, Staffing Specialist
Nuance Communications (USA)
Direct Phone: 650-847-7799
E-mail: bwikes at nuance.com

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