FAME! (Frisian Audio Mining Enterprise) is a project in the Creative Industry programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The goal of the project is to develop Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Frisian, for the purpose of disclosing an archive of over 2500 hours of radio broadcasts. The challenge is to make a single system that can deal with both Frisian and Dutch. You will research methods to bootstrap Frisian ASR from other languages and will investigate the issue of code-switching. A second research area is longitudinal automatic speaker recognition, in order to track speakers over almost half a century of radio broadcasts, for which new approaches for compensation of ageing need to be developed.
The project is carried out in co-operation with several other project partners in the Netherlands, most notably the Fryske Akademy, and we require that you can work well with other (remote) team members, taking a lead when appropriate but also contributing to tasks of other team members.
The research will need to be documented in scientific publications in appropriate journals and relevant conference proceedings, and in Open Source software tools.
Description
- you have a PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Computational Linguistics or any other relevant discipline;
- preferably, you have experience in speech technology;
- you have a good publication record;
- you are fluent in English (spoken and written);
- you have good comprehension ability of scientific papers;
- you have experience in the Linux OS, git version control, scripting in Python and Bash, high performance computing in Julia or Num/SciPy, authoring in LaTex, and cluster computing;
- you have an affinity with the open source community;
- you have the drive to work with other project partners, also on location.
Nr of positions available : 1
Research Fields
Language sciences
Career Stage
Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate)
Experienced researcher or 4-10 yrs (Post-Doc)
More Experienced researcher or >10 yrs (Senior)
Research Profiles
Not defined
Benefits
0 - 4551
Benefits
- you will be classified as a Researcher Level 3 in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO).
- you will be appointed for an initial period of 2 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended to the end date.
Requirements
| ENGLISH |
| Good |
| Language sciences |
| Language sciences |
| University Graduate |
| 1 |