Research Associate (Virtual Reality Application Development)
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hybrid / WFH Options
Manchester Metropolitan University
Digital Arts (SODA) you will join state-of-the-art research on the AHRC funded Emote VR Voicer project, to develop new intelligently responsive VR apps that incorporate speech recognition and meaning classification. You will help create a system that can detect live emotional content in the spoken (or sung) word, mapping this to visual … a speaker's emotions, leading to a new affective channel that can be explored in art. The controls available in standard Virtual Reality (VR) can be supplemented with speech recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis. We aim to embody this potential in the front end of a new audiovisual interface, which would translate detected … research papers Experience with image and/or audio based projects Experience with real-time system optimisation (e.g. low-latency audio/visual feedback in VR) Experience with speech recognition (e.g. whisper), sentiment analysis, or emotion classification Experience with data backup systems Experience with working in interdisciplinary teams Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Creative problem More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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