RESEARCH AND DEVELOPPEMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE LORIA LABORATORY, FRANCE (Nancy)

Position at the LORIA laboratory, Speech group.

Job Title: Research Engineer Job Function :Research and development
Job Type : Fixed Term (11 months) Closing date for applications: 1 November 2004
Further Information : http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole UNIX programming skills, C, Shell
Required level : PhD in Computer Science with specialty of Speech Recognition or engineer level with at last 2 years of experience in Speech Recognition

Job description
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A research engineer is needed for the LORIA laboratory to work on the European Project HIWIRE.
The applicant will develop, run and analyze the experiments in automatic speech recognition.
Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science with specialty in Speech Recognition or have an engineer level with at last 2 years of experience in Speech Recognition.
He should have a good grasp of statistics and speech processing. The ideal candidate will have experience in noise robustness and speaker adaptation.
UNIX programming skills are highly desirable (C, C++, Java, Shell).
HIWIRE (Human Input That Works In Real Environments)
European project concerned with vocal technologies to support human-machine interaction, in the context of aircraft cockpits.
The goal of the project is :
- to enable vocal dialogues with equipments in commercial aircraft cockpits
- to improve the potential for vocal interaction with PDAs and other mobile devices in aeronautic application environments.

The project will focus on two main targets :
- improved robustness of speech recognition system against the environment ;
- improved tolerance to user behavior.
This appointment is for a fixed term of up to 11 months, starting between 1 October, 2004 and 1 January, 2005.

How to apply
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Send your motivation letter, your CV and academic references to contact persons.

Contact persons
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Irina Illina or Dominique Fohr
Speech group LORIA-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine
B.P. 239
54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy France
tel: 03.83.59.20.27 fax: 03.83.41.30.79
Email : fohr@loria.fr, illina@loria.fr