The University of Sheffield department of computer science and engineering offers one fully-funded PhD studentship in Multilingual Speech Recognition to start in October 2020.
The studentship covers tuition fees (either Home/EU or Overseas) and an annual tax-free maintenance stipend at the standard UK Research rate (£15,285 in 2020-21) for up to three years.
Fully-funded PhD Studentship
This studentship project will be focusing on developing novel methods for the construction of automatic speech recognisers that are capable of transcribing speech in multiple languages.
The motivation for multilingual speech recognition is two-fold. Building recognisers is difficult for many languages where low amounts of data are available for training. In these low resource settings, a strategy is to reuse recognition models trained on other languages.
The second motivation is that switching between two or even more languages (so-called code-switching) is common in many cultures.
Recognisers that are capable of handling the complex acoustic and linguistic relationships between multiple languages are required.
Multilingual Speech Recognition
Multilingual speech recognition has recently seen increased interest with promising novel neural modelling techniques.
The objective for this project is specifically to work on large groups of languages and improve generalisation. The precise project formulation will be finalised in collaboration with the successful candidate.
The successful candidate will be part of the Voicebase Centre for Speech and Language Technology at the University of Sheffield, under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Hain, and work in close collaboration with the post-doctoral researchers in the group.
Qualification
An enthusiastic individual with a minimum of 2.1 undergraduate (BSc) and/or postgraduate masters’ qualification (MSc) in Computer Science or a closely related subject.
How to Apply
To apply for the project, applicants need to apply directly to the University of Sheffield using the online application system.
Complete an application for admission to the standard Computer Science PhD programme
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