how well do NLP masters prepare you for industry jobs?

Hey everyone!

I am currently a second-year student enrolled in a linguistics program but I am taking some NLP courses (python programming, machine learning, neural networks, machine translation, databases, maybe statistics). I have a great interest in phonetics & speech technology and am therefore looking into Edinburgh's speech and language processing master as well as other one-year more general NLP masters. However, with all of this I am just unsure if a one-year masters, especially a highly specialised one such …

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