Speech Technology University of Groningen

Overview

Whenever you dictate a message on your smartphone, you are using voice technologies. But this is only the beginning! Soon, speech technologies will be present in the field of health, cybersecurity, language learning, and much more. For now, people with scientific expertise in the domain of Speech Tech are in short supply.

Why choose this  Speech Technology programme at University of Groningen ?

You should consider studying this programme because:

• this is the only graduate programme dedicated to speech synthesis and speech recognition

• it is interdisciplinary in nature and students from diverse backgrounds collaborate with each other and industrial partners

• it offers the opportunity to develop speech recognizers, make synthetic voices, and execute empirical experiments

• it creates space for you to showcase your expertise by making a demonstrator as your thesis project

• it is located in Leeuwarden, a multilingual reality with locals speaking the Frisian language alongside Dutch, English and a number of others. It is, then, an interesting test-bed for speech technology developments involving less-resourced languages, multilingualism and code switching.

Job prospects

Throughout the programme we invite several guest speakers from industry. That way students will get a good impression of the various possibilities ranging from developing speech recognizer, synthetic voices, automatic detection of pathologies from speech, the use of speech technology in robotica and/or dialogue systems, etc. The speech technology industry is a fast-growing market which provides lots of opportunities for graduates.

• Speech Scientist

• Voice Forensic Specialist
• Speech Analyst
• Research Engineer
• Entrepreneur
• PhD Researcher