In the purpose of improving the quality and precision of oral messages, the objective of the proposed training job is to study the way an oral alert should be addressed in cockpit. This study will concern Airbus Civil Aircrafts and will consist in: Details of the mission : Defining the requirements regarding speech synthesis in order to ease comprehension : Man vs. Woman Prosody Accentuation Intensity Intonation Rhythm Speed Repetition Describing (in different languages) the different ways to express (syntax & terminology): Order Prohibition Advise Questioning Normal vs. Abnormal status Defining efficient combinations to describe emergency (e.g. repetition + man voice) Collecting the distinctive features of different pilots' mother tongues (English US, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Italian) in order to study the proximity of sounds between English US and the mother tongues of end users, to check the relevance of the new-built words. Required competences : Linguistics Phonetics/phonology Sociolinguistics Pragmatics Required level/diploma : BAC+5, 3ème cycle Duration : 6 months (starting in April 2013) Localisation : AIRBUS France SAS 316, route de Bayonne 31060 Toulouse Cedex 03 To file your application, please send us your covering letter and your CV. Contact: Emmanuelle Cannesson ( 33.(0)5.67.19.97.34 emmanuelle.cannesson@airbus.com Florence Beaujard ( 33.(0)5.61.93.98.14 florence.beaujard@airbus.com