Subject: Research Fellow opening at Edinburgh for Speech Synthesis From: Dan Ellis <dpwe(at)EE.COLUMBIA.EDU> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:36:27 -0500Dear List - Please find enclosed an announcement of an opportunity to work on improving prosody synthesis in Festival, the pre-eminent research speech synthesis engine. DAn. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:36:20 +0000 From: Simon King <Simon.King(at)ed.ac.uk> Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh Subject: job opening at CSTR Dan, I'd be grateful if you could circulate this job advert to anyone you think might be interested in the position, many thanks, Simon - ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - -- Dr. Simon King Simon.King(at)ed.ac.uk Centre for Speech Technology Research www.cstr.ed.ac.uk For MSc/PhD info, visit www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/language-at-edinburgh ------- End of Forwarded Message