31.3248, Support: Phonetics: PhD, University of Zurich

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:54:50
From: Elisa Pellegrino [elisa.pellegrino at uzh.ch]
Subject: Phonetics: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 Institution/Organization: University of Zurich 
Department: Computational Linguistics 
Web Address: https://www.cl.uzh.ch/en.html 

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Phonetics 
Speech Signal Processing; Speech and Language Technology 

Description:

Description:
For a 4-year research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
on The Dynamics of Indexical Information in Speech and its Role in Speech
Communication and Speaker Recognition we are looking for 1 PhD student (for
project description, see https://seafile.ifi.uzh.ch/f/9b6f17eabea544ad976f/  
page 2)

Requirements:
- Master (e.g. MA, MSc, MRes, etc.) in Speech and Language Technology, Speech
Signal Processing, Speech Sciences, Phonetics, Psychology
- Proficient oral and writing skills in English

You should have experience in areas like: 
- Speech signal processing (e.g. Matlab, Python, Praat, Wavesurfer, Kaldi is
plus)
- Automatic procedures of speaker/voice recognition
- Statistical data processing (in particular for speech)
- Experience with behavioral experiments with speech and/or voice recognition
is an asset
Payment for the position will be between 47-50k CHF/year (depending on year) 

As a PhD student in the project you will carry out tasks such as: 
- Editing speech data and compiling databases.
- Processing speech data and carrying out acoustic analysis. 
- Running automatic speaker and speech recognition tasks

To be considered your application must consist of one single PDF file of max.
4 pages with the following structure: 
- 2 pages: CV including name and email of two potential referees
- 1 page: Summary of your experiences with speech/speaker recognition and
phonetics, and why you think you might be the right person for this project
(project description, cf. https://seafile.ifi.uzh.ch/f/9b6f17eabea544ad976f/ 
page 2)
- 1 page: Summary of your preferred PhD project 

Application Procedure: 
- Send your PDF application by email to the admin office: Ms Tamar Tolcachier
(tolcachier at ifi.uzh.ch), with the references IndexicalDynamicsPosition
- This application is open until filled. Before preparing your application,
you may check on the following webpage whether a position is still available:
http://pub.cl.uzh.ch/purl/vdellwo 
- Start of position at the next possible date (negotiable)

Further information about the job description and the project is available:
https://seafile.ifi.uzh.ch/f/9b6f17eabea544ad976f/

Contact persons:
- Volker Dellwo (PI); email: volker.dellwo at uzh.ch; 
- Thayabaran Kathiresan, email: thayabaran.kathiresan at uzh.ch; 
- Elisa Pellegrino, email: elisa.pellegrino at uzh.ch
 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo
	volker.dellwo at uzh.ch  


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