Subject: MOTOROLA STUDENTSHIPS in SPEECH RECOGNITION From: Phil Green <p.green(at)dcs.shef.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:00:18 +0000MOTOROLA STUDENTSHIPS in SPEECH RECOGNITION The Speech and Hearing (SpandH) Research Group in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK has two PhD studentships supported by Motorola. These awards are available from September 2001, with a duration of 3 years subject to satisfactory progress. SpandH is a unique grouping covering a spectrum of research from auditory modelling through speech perception to engineering large vocabulary speech recognition systems. We believe that different points on this spectrum should inform each other. Potential PhD topics include: + robust speech recognition, using missing data approaches + decoding multiple sound sources + statistical models of prosody, using maximum entropy + computational auditory scene analysis + recognition of spontaneous speech The studentship will provide a bursary (UKP10,500 per year) and successful applicants will be eligible for the University's fee waiver scheme. Part of the studentship is likely to involve an internship at Motorola research labs in the US (Palo Alto CA) or the UK (Basingstoke). For further information please visit the group web site http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/spandh or contact ********************************* Professor Phil Green Speech and Hearing Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 22 21828 fax: (44) 114 22 21810 email: p.green(at)dcs.shef.ac.uk www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Green/ ***********************************************