Overview
The goals of this PhD research project are to develop new behavioural measures of listening effort which can be used to assess the quality of distorted or noisy speech signals. Such measures would provide objective means of studying the effect of communication channels on listening effort, and would complement existing measures such as word intelligibility rate and mean-opinion score. These new measures could then be used to evaluate a range of signal processing strategies proposed to encode, clean or enhance speech signals, which have wide application in telecommunications and hearing-aid design. Further information.
Eligibility
Candidates should have a good first degree in Psychology, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Engineering, or Life-Sciences. They should have experience in research methods and have demonstrated success in undertaking a personal research project. Knowledge and skills in speech and hearing science would be beneficial.
Stipend: £15,000 per annum
Tuition Fees: This PhD position also provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate
The studentship is funded by Research in Motion through a donation to Dr. Mark Huckvale. The PhD project would be jointly supervised by Dr. Huckvale and Gaston Hilkhuysen within the Research Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, in the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. The student would collaborate with members of the Centre for Law-Enforcement Audio Research (www.clear-labs.com), which is a joint research centre of Imperial College London and University College London, funded by the UK Home Office.
Students will formally register for the PhD programme in September 2010.
For candidates who can start earlier, we may be able to offer an internship position at the same rate as the student stipend, starting as early as January 2010.
Application is by a letter of application and a CV, sent to:
Natalie Wilkins
Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
University College London
Chandler House
2 Wakefield Street
London WC1N 1PF
United Kingdom.
n.wilkins@ucl.ac.uk
Application deadline: 1 December 2009
Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a graduate student application form and supply references from two referees. For more details, visit http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/shaps/jobs.php, or contact Mark Huckvale (m.huckvale@ucl.ac.uk).
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
The goals of this PhD research project are to develop new behavioural measures of listening effort which can be used to assess the quality of distorted or noisy speech signals. Such measures would provide objective means of studying the effect of communication channels on listening effort, and would complement existing measures such as word intelligibility rate and mean-opinion score. These new measures could then be used to evaluate a range of signal processing strategies proposed to encode, clean or enhance speech signals, which have wide application in telecommunications and hearing-aid design. Further information.
Eligibility
Candidates should have a good first degree in Psychology, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Engineering, or Life-Sciences. They should have experience in research methods and have demonstrated success in undertaking a personal research project. Knowledge and skills in speech and hearing science would be beneficial.
Stipend: £15,000 per annum
Tuition Fees: This PhD position also provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate
The studentship is funded by Research in Motion through a donation to Dr. Mark Huckvale. The PhD project would be jointly supervised by Dr. Huckvale and Gaston Hilkhuysen within the Research Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, in the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. The student would collaborate with members of the Centre for Law-Enforcement Audio Research (www.clear-labs.com), which is a joint research centre of Imperial College London and University College London, funded by the UK Home Office.
Students will formally register for the PhD programme in September 2010.
For candidates who can start earlier, we may be able to offer an internship position at the same rate as the student stipend, starting as early as January 2010.
Application is by a letter of application and a CV, sent to:
Natalie Wilkins
Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
University College London
Chandler House
2 Wakefield Street
London WC1N 1PF
United Kingdom.
n.wilkins@ucl.ac.uk
Application deadline: 1 December 2009
Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a graduate student application form and supply references from two referees. For more details, visit http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/shaps/jobs.php, or contact Mark Huckvale (m.huckvale@ucl.ac.uk).
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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