RESEARCH FELLOW IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS

The Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh is seeking a research fellow to work on the leading text-to-speech research toolkit, Festival (www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival) through the ongoing project "Expressive Prosody for Unit-selection Speech Synthesis".

The project's aims are to add explicit control of prosody to unit-selection speech synthesis, generate prosody appropriate for communicating specific meanings and information structures and to realise this prosody with sequences of appropriately-sized pitch accents, arranged into valid intonation tunes.

This project is jointly lead by Simon King, Mark Steedman and Rob Clark (Edinburgh) and Dan Jurafsky (Stanford, USA).

Full details can be found at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities