Why choose this programme?
Simon King
Programme Director
An introduction from the Programme Director
Welcome to the MSc/Dip in Speech and Language Processing, an intensive one-year taught postgraduate degree here at the University of Edinburgh.
The programme covers all areas of speech and language processing, from phonetics, speech synthesis and speech recognition, to natural language generation and machine translation.
The flexible nature of the programme allows students to take courses ranging across other areas of linguistics, informatics, cognitive science and psychology.
The programme is co-taught by faculty from Linguistics and Informatics, both of which are the best in the UK and world leading in their fields. This programme draws on the combined expertise of these subject areas to deliver a broad range of courses, all informed by current research being conducted at Edinburgh.
On the programme, you will feel connected to these active research programmes and will be taught by leading researchers in their respective fields. The dissertation project provides an opportunity for you to directly connect with active research projects.
If you are deciding whether to apply, or already have an offer of a place, and would like to make contact with current and former students from this programme to get their views and find out what they are doing now, please contact me.
If you have any other questions about the programme that are not answered on these pages, don't hesitate to ask!
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