Position Intern
Group Speech Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Type Full-time
Quantity 1
Work Location Beijing, China
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
The Microsoft Research Asia speech group has a 6 month internship available in the area of spoken document recommendation and metadata generation. The project will examine new techniques for automatically generating relationships, keywords and recommendations for spoken documents based on spoken content, acoustic events and visual features. Any research findings will be directly applicable to applications such as video recommendation and multimedia document indexing.
Required Qualifications
We are looking for:
1. Excellent skills in speech recognition and/or natural language processing;
2. Solid understanding of probabilistic modelling and statistical training algorithms;
3. Very Strong C++ coding skills are required;
4. Have the experience in using scripting languages such as perl, python or unix scripts;
5. Good technical reading, written, speaking in English.
6. Ph.D or M.S candidate, can commit at least 6-month’s internship
7. Can get advisor’s approval
Qualified applicants please fill out the attached application form and send a full resume in both English and Chinese (Word/PDF format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com, and please note you are applying for Speech Group.
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