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Third-cycle subject: Speech and Music Communication
The doctoral position is offered by the department of Speech, Music and Hearing (Sw ”Tal, Musik och Hörsel”, TMH; http://www.kth.se/tmh). TMH is an internationally prominent research group within speech technology and related areas with a heritage that ranges back to the early 50s. It was one of the first research groups of its kind, and is likely the oldest that is still active. The group is in the forefront of fundamental research in areas such as speech analysis, analysis of human communicative behaviours, audiovisual synthesis and generation, speech perception and understanding, and multimodal dialogue systems.
Within the VR-funded project “Connected - Context-aware speech synthesis for conversational AI” we look for one fully funded Doctoral student. In this project the aim is to develop and evaluate a context-aware conversational speech synthesizer that allows for implicit control over the manner of speaking to cater for the communicative needs of different interactive scenarios. More specifically, we will develop different strategies to adapt the synthetic voice to changes in the communicative setting and in response to the verbal and non-verbal behavior of the conversational partner. Some recent papers and associated TTS samples can be found at: https://www.speech.kth.se/tts-demos/
Supervision: The doctoral student will be supervised by Prof. Joakim Gustafson and Dr. Eva Szekely
To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:
In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:
Other important traits are: openness toward interdisciplinary research, creativity and a structured approach.
Good command of spoken and written English is required. Expertise in machine learning/deep learning and good programming skills are strongly desirable. Experience and interest in areas like speech technology, signal processing, robotics, natural language processing, linguistics, perception is also considered as asset.
After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and personal suitability.
Target degree: Doctoral degree
Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | According to agreement |
Salary | Monthly salary according to KTH's doctoral student salary agreement |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Stockholm |
County | Stockholms län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | J-2021-0323 |
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Published | 11.Feb.2021 |
Last application date | 02.Apr.2021 |