Low-level processing in L2 speech perception

A 12-month ER fellowship is available to work on modelling non-native speech perception as part of Project 6 of the Marie Curie Research Training Network Sound to Sense. The fellowship will be based in Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), with the expectation that up to 30% of the time will be spent at other project partners' institutions. The work will investigate the effect of noise on speech production and perception for several languages, and will involve participation in the development of software to collect speech in noise at a number of sites, followed by corpus collection, annotation and analysis, in conjunction with experts in acoustic-phonetics.

Candidates

Background: The candidate should have a background in speech processing, with programming ability. Ideally, the candidate will have experience in running perceptual tests and speech data collection.

Qualifications: An ER fellowship is "post-doctoral or equivalent". For more details on the EC rules, see Who can apply> http://www.sound2sense.eu/vacancy/who-can-apply

Dates

Starting date:

(a) May - June 2009, if the candidate begins in Prague.
(b) Early 2009, if the candidate first spends some time (e.g. 3 months) in Vitoria, Spain

Closing date for applications: 31st October 2008

More information

Please see the S2S website, www.sound2sense.eu for a description of the work to be done, and for an overview of the S2S Network.
More information about the aplication: Ms Naomi Hilton E-mail : soundsen@hermes.cam.ac.uk