Microsoft Research Asia is recruiting interns for Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program.

Qualified applicants please fill in the attached application form and send it together with a full resume in both English and Chinese (PDF/Word/Txt/Html format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com , and please note you are applying for Speech Group.


Position: Full-time Intern
Group: Speech Group
Quantity: 1
Work Location: Beijing

Group Overview
Using our voices to communicate continues to be the most natural and the easiest way to exchange ideas and thoughts. At MSR Asia, the Speech Group is working hard to turn their ideas into reality and improve spoken-language technologies, enable human-computer voice interaction, and enrich human-to-human voice communications. The group’s current focus includes speech recognition to enable computers to facilitate access to data, help create content, and perform tasks; speech synthesis to enable computers to speak with a human-sounding voice, to respond and provide information, and to read; and spoken-document retrieval and processing to enrich communication between people.

Roles & Responsibilities
MSRA Speech Group is looking for an Intern candidate for a 6 month project on video recommendation.  The student will engage in comparative research between content-based recommendation (using speech and acoustic analysis) and collaborative filtering recommendation for the Internet video domain.  The research is targeted at a number of real Microsoft properties, including MSN Video and MSN Soapbox.

Required Qualifications:
If you are

1. The student should have considerable research expertise in the areas of machine learning and statistical processing.  
2. Experience with either natural language processing or speech recognition is also required.  
3. The student should be fluent in C++ and C# languages.  
4. Skills in scripting languages such as perl, python, and linux shell script will be viewed favorably.
5. Can commit for at least 6 months.
6. Can get advisor’s written approval.
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