Researcher and Postdoc Positions Project B2 "speech & more" The ftw. (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna) is a cooperative research center involving 3 institutes of the Vienna University of Technology, 14 telecommunications companies, and the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. More information can be found at http://www.ftw.at/. Task Description Conduct advanced research and development in the area of spoken and multimodal dialog systems, including combining speech dialog with mobile multimedia applications (UMTS), pronunciation modeling, and noise cancellation. The positions provide the opportunity to work together with leading companies in the fields of telecommunications and speech technology. The positions will become available between now and the beginning of next year. Required Qualifications * Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal dialog systems * Masters or doctorate degree in one of the relevant disciplines (i.e., computer science, communications, phonetics or computational linguistics) * Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication skills Additional Qualifications A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would be preferred: * Knowledge of internet protocols, XML, VoiceXML * Java / C++ experience * Experience in usability engineering and usability testing * Experience with spoken language corpora * Software engineering and project management skills * Experience working in collaborative industry/academia projects * Knowledge of German Applications and inquiries should be directed to Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien Dr. Markus Kommenda (Managing Director), kommenda@ftw.at or Dr. Gregor Erbach (Project Manager), erbach@ftw.at ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Gregor Erbach gregor.erbach@ftw.at Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien FTW Tel. +43/699-10389005 (Vienna Telecommunications Research Centre) Fax: +43/1/5052830-99 Maderstrasse 1/9, A-1040 Wien, Austria http://speech.ftw.at/~gor