The Speech Technology group (SpeechTek) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler https://www.fbk.eu/en/ (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento https://iecs.unitn.it/ is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully funded PhD position.
*Title: Advancing speech recognition and understanding*
*Description: *Recent advancements in speech recognition and language technologies have significantly improved their performance across various applications: speech recognition, spoken language understanding, speaker diarization, speech analytics. However,these systems still face challenges when applied “in the wild, e.g. in typical domestic or office-like settings, due to background noise and overlapping speech. These factors hinder the effectiveness of current speech technologies, highlighting a need for further research and development.
The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies.
The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies.
If you have recently completed a Master's degree or an equivalent qualification and if you are
interested in carrying out research in an extremely interesting field of artificial intelligence that
addresses the problem of recognition and understanding of spoken language, collaborating
with an Italian research group with a long tradition in the field, you are certainly interested in
applying to the above-mentioned call.
*Scholarship: *
The annual gross amount of the doctoral scholarship is €18.345,00. Students who
have been awarded a PhD scholarship are entitled to get a 50% scholarship
increase when staying abroad for reasons related to their doctoral research and
studies. Each student is provided with a budget which can be used for educational
and research purposes. Fondazione Bruno Kessler will provide any help for accomodation and administrative procedures.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)
*CONTACTS*: brutti@fbk.eu guerini@fbk.eu
*COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT*:
Call for application | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna
Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy
mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591
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