Job Opportunity in Speech Intelligibility at University College London

[Mark Huckvale <m.huckvale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Research Assistant/Research Associate

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Research Associate who 
has expertise in hearing or speech perception research. The post holder 
will work on a project concerned with improving the intelligibility of 
poor quality speech recordings arising in law enforcement situations.

The project is part of the Centre for Law Enforcement Research (CLEAR) 
which has just been set up in collaboration with Imperial College London 
and funded by the UK Home Office. Within the project we aim to (i) 
develop reliable procedures for the evaluation of speech cleaning 
methods, including the synthesis of test materials, (ii) to develop 
techniques for the automatic assessment and diagnosis of recording 
quality defects, (iii) to evaluate existing speech cleaning tools, and 
(iv) to develop new algorithms and approaches with improved performance.

The post holder will be based at UCL and focus on the human side of the 
problem: testing the performance of speech cleaning methods on 
listeners, developing predictive models of intelligibility using 
knowledge of hearing and speech perception, and improving listener 
transcription performance through a better understanding of human 
factors. In addition the post holder will collaborate with the 
engineering team at Imperial College, and the manager of the CLEAR 
laboratory. The successful applicant will hold a first degree in Speech 
and Hearing Science, Psychology, or a related subject. Research 
experience and a PhD in a relevant area are desirable.

This is a fixed term appointment for up to five years.

For further details and how to apply, see http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/jobs/

The closing date for applications is 7 November 2007

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Mark Huckvale, Director MSc Speech and Hearing Science
Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk