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We are looking to hire a student pursuing their MSc./Ph.D. for a 12-week an internship, joining CMD Labs – an applied science team within Microsoft Teams – to work on improving transcription accuracy for AI applications, with emphasis on named entities (e.g., names of people/products/teams etc.) by applying existing or novel research and leveraging training, fine tuning, and prompt engineering of speech transformer models, as well as LLMs and audio-enabled foundations models as post-processing and re-scoring modules.

Our flagship AI applications for Teams Meetings such Team Copilot, Personal Meeting Copilot and Intelligent Recap are all fully dependent on an accurate meeting transcription as the primary grounding data. Within transcription, the importance of named entities - names of people, projects, products, companies and places - is often the most important, and yet the most challenging for the transcription engine since the names might not be a part of the model's training data.

Responsibilities

• Conduct experiments, create and validate metrics, and develop candidate algorithms to improve the accuracy of transcription of named entities and reduce chances of error in downstream LLM-based applications.
• Collaborate closely with CMD Labs researchers and engineers to leverage existing assets, datasets, and ensure results can be leveraged back into the product.
• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Internship Duration: 12 Weeks

Required Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in M.Sc./ Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
• Practical experience in training, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering of transformer models or LLMs.
• Practical Python coding experience leveraging PyTorch or TensorFlow or similar framework
  
  

Preferred  Qualifications

• Field of research and publications directly related to transcription or the Audio LLMs.
  
  

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