Speech Recognition Intern

Job Description

Sony Research India is seeking a dynamic and motivated Speech Recognition Intern to join our innovative research team. As an intern, you will work on real-world problems in automatic speech recognition (ASR), focusing on improving noise robustness and reducing hallucinations in transcription outputs. You'll gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools and datasets, and contribute to impactful projects alongside experienced researchers and engineers. Key Responsibilities: Explore and develop techniques to enhance ASR robustness under noisy, low-resource, and domain-shifted conditions. Investigate hallucination phenomena in end-to-end ASR models (e.g., Whisper, Wav2Vec2, etc.) and propose mitigation strategies. Conduct experiments using large-scale speech datasets and evaluate ASR performance across varying noise levels and linguistic diversity. Contribute to publications, technical reports, or open-source tools as outcomes of the research. Work Location: Remote Duration of the paid Internship: This paid internship will be for a period of 6 months starting June first week of 2025. 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday). Qualification: Currently pursuing/completed Masters in (Research) or Ph.D. in deep learning/machine learning with hands-on experience on Transformer models with an applications audio/speech. Must Have Skills: Strong programming skills in Python, and familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow. Experience with speech processing libraries (e.g., Torchaudio, ESPnet, Hugging Face Transformers). Prior experience with ASR models like Wav2Vec2, Whisper, or RNN-T is a plus. Ability to read and implement academic papers. Strong foundation in machine learning and signal processing. Good to have skills: Familiarity with prompt tuning, contrastive learning, or multi-modal architectures. Experience with evaluating hallucinations or generating synthetic speech/audio perturbations. Show more Show less