Fwd: Silent Speech RA Job at Sheffield (Phil Green )

Subject: Fwd: Silent Speech RA Job at Sheffield From: Phil Green <p.green@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:53:04 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090608070708090901070107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, Apologies for cross-postings. We have a vacancy at Sheffield from 1st April for a researcher on the=20 DISARM 'silent speech' project in which we collaborate with the=20 University of Hull. Here's a short summary: The DISARM project, a collaboration between the University of Sheffield=20 and the University of Hull, is seeking to help people who have lost the=20 ability to speak following a laryngectomy:surgical removal of all or=20 part of the larynx.The technique, developed at Hull, involves=20 positioning small magnets around the lips and tongue and sensing the=20 changes in magnetic field caused by movement of these magnets as the=20 subject mouths the words s/he wants to =E2=80=98say=E2=80=99. Hence DISAR= M stands for=20 =E2=80=98Digital Speech Recovery from Articulator Movement=E2=80=99.The S= heffield team=20 has shown that it is possible to recognise speech from this sensor data=20 and then use a speech synthesiser to provide the subject with a voice.=20 This post is concerned with further developments of thistechnique, and=20 with the alternative possibility of using the sensor data to drive a=20 synthesiser directly, without the intermediate recognition stage. It=20 will run for around 18 months. Please bring this to the attention of anyone you know who might be=20 interested. Thanks --=20 ********************************* Professor Phil Green Speech and Hearing Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 22 21828 fax: (44) 114 22 21810 email:p.green@xxxxxxxx www:http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Green/ *********************************************** --------------090608070708090901070107 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUTF= -8"> </head> <body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF" text=3D"#000000"> <div class=3D"moz-forward-container"> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUTF-8" http-equiv=3D"Content-= Type"> Hi All, Apologies for cross-postings. We have a vacancy at Sheffield from 1st April for a researcher on the DISARM=C2=A0 'silent speech' project in which we collaborate wi= th the University of Hull. Here's a short summary: <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DU= TF-8"> <sma= ll><big>The DISARM project, a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the University of Hull, =C2=A0= is seeking to help people who have lost the ability to speak following a laryngectomy:=C2= =A0 surgical removal of all or part of the larynx.=C2=A0 The technique, developed at Hull, involves positioning small magnets around the lips and tongue and sensing the changes in magnetic field caused by movement of these magnets as the subject mouths the words s/he wants to =E2=80=98say=E2=80=99= . Hence DISARM stands for =E2=80=98Digital Speech Recovery from Articulator Movement=E2=80=99.=C2=A0 The Sheffield te= am has shown that it is possible to recognise speech from this sensor data and then use a speech synthesiser to provide the subject with a voice. This post is concerned with further developments of this=C2=A0 technique, and w= ith the alternative possibility of using the sensor data to drive a synthesiser directly, without the intermediate recognition stage. It will run for around 18 months.= </big><o:p><= /o:p> <sma= ll><o:p>=C2=A0</o:p><= /p> Please bring this to the attention of anyone you know who might be interested. Thanks <pre class=3D"moz-signature" cols=3D"72">--=20 ********************************* Professor Phil Green Speech and Hearing Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 22 21828 fax: (44) 114 22 21810 email: <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" class=3D"moz-txt-link-abbreviated" hre= f=3D"mailto:p.green@xxxxxxxx">p.green@xxxxxxxx</a> www: <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D= "http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Green/">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/peo= ple/P.Green/</a> ***********************************************</pre> </div> </body> </html> --------------090608070708090901070107--

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