Postdoctoral Researcher in Speech Technology

• 40 hours per week
• Maximum gross monthly salary: € 5,127
• Faculty of Arts
• Required background: PhD
• Duration of the contract: 3 years
• Application deadline: 22 October 2020

We are looking for

You will work on two new and challenging application-oriented projects with significant societal impact: 1. Homed, in which a standard Kaldi speech recogniser for Dutch will be adapted to be used in intramural medical and patient-oriented environments. It will play an important role in documenting patients' views on medicine use and well-being. 2. ST.CART: a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) speech technology project with two components: one component supports children learning to read and the other helps identify cognitive decline in the elderly.

We ask

• A PhD in engineering, computer science, machine learning, signal processing, computational linguistics or any other relevant discipline.
• Experience with automatic speech recognition and spoken dialogue systems.
• Advanced experience with the Kaldi speech recognition environment, language models, acoustic models, scoring and rescoring.
• Fluent command of the Python scripting language.
• Experience with Unix work environments.
• A teamplayer mentality.
• An excellent publication record.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Preferably a good command of Dutch.

We are

The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of Language and Culture, History, History of arts, Linguistics, and Communication and Information Studies, which together cater for about 2,400 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research. Research at the Faculty of Arts is embedded in two research institutes: the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH) and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS). You will be hosted at the Centre of Language and Speech Technology (CLST), which is part of CLS. You will work in a team-driven environment. We like to collaborate, inform each other about achievements, challenges and drawbacks in our projects, and learn from each other where we can. We want to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, which is why we endeavour to create a culturally diverse staff.

Radboud University

We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This is what unites the more than 22,000 students and 5,000 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!

We offer

• Employment: 40 hours per week.
• A maximum gross monthly salary of € 5,127 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 11).
• The exact salary depends on the candidate's qualifications and amount of relevant professional experience.
• In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• Duration of the contract: Temporary for 3 years.
• The intended start date is 1 December 2020.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment  and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Have a look at our excellent employment conditions. They include a good work-life balance (among other things because of the excellent leave arrangements), opportunities for development and a great pension scheme.

Would you like more information?

Apply directly

Please address your application to Henk van den Heuvel and submit it, using the application button, no later than 22 October 2020, 23:59 Amsterdam Time Zone.   

Your application should include the following attachments:

• Letter of motivation.
• CV.

We drafted this vacancy to find and hire our new colleague ourselves. Recruitment agencies are kindly requested to refrain from responding.