Research Intern - Speech and Audio Processing

Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.

The Azure AI team is on a mission to advance the state of the art in AI and deliver on our company’s vision for how intelligent cloud and intelligent edge will shape the next phase of innovation. The team includes top scientists and researchers from across Microsoft who are creating a center of excellence in speech, computer vision, and natural language.

Speech and audio AI technology is one of the key drivers for advancing natural user interfaces with natural spoken language. The Speech and Audio Group is on a mission to develop the core speech technologies that empower millions of users to achieve more. Our group brings together talent in the areas of signal processing, speech recognition, speech translation, and speech and audio generation to develop and deliver robust, natural, and scalable speech experience across a rich set of scenarios and languages.

We are seeking interns to contribute to pioneering research in speech and audio. This includes areas such as end-to-end speech recognition and translation, speech and audio generation, and multimodal with LLM. As a Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to conduct both fundamental and applied research in collaboration with our researchers and scientists.

This position offers the opportunity to prototype, demonstrate, and publish your findings within Microsoft’s privileged environment for Azure AI and Azure Open AI services. Most importantly, you will have the chance to push the boundaries of current technologies, making a significant impact on millions of users.