Postdoc in Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech Technology

Job description

This postdoctoral position is part of the research project Listen Up, which develops an interactive training program to increase awareness of gender bias in speech perception, using controllable neural text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion.

The project combines experimental speech perception research, sociolinguistics, gender studies and speech technology. We study how listeners interpret voices and how assumptions about gender, authority, confidence and professionalism emerge through listening. The goal is to develop an engaging interactive training program that helps users reflect on and challenge their own listening biases.

An important part of the project is designing engaging and thought-provoking listening experiments that go beyond measuring bias and lead to reflection and awareness for participants.

We are looking for someone who is intellectually curious, creative, collaborative and genuinely interested in questions ...