Funded PhD Opportunities 2012

Applications are invited for the PhD research projects listed below. Applicants should hold (or be expecting) a first class or good 2.1 degree in a relevant subject. For project-specific eligibility criteria and funding details please contact the academic responsible for the project before applying; their email addresses are listed below. 

To apply, please use the University's online application form at http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/online and provide the name of the academic (listed below) when asked to name a supervisor.

The following projects are fully funded and available immediately

Natural Speech Technology

Contact Thomas Hain (t.hain@dcs.shef.ac.uk)

Up to three funded Ph.D. studentships are available in the Speech and Hearing Research Group in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield UK. These studentships are supported by the EPSRC programme grant in Natural Speech Technology (http://www.natural-speech-technology.org/) and associated funding sources. Project topics will be defined within the following areas: techniques for unsupervised learning from continuous streams of speech data; models that adapt to new scenarios and speaking styles; recognisers that can detect "who spoke what, when, and how" in any acoustic environment and for any task domain; PALs – Personal Adaptive Listening systems for people with communication disorders.