SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (Speech Synthesis)
 
Come join us and build Personal Artificial Intelligence (PAI) -- intelligent 3D avatars that look, sound, and behave like the individual user!
 ObEN is an artificial intelligence company developing a decentralized AI platform for Personal AI (PAI). Founded in 2014, ObEN is a K11, Tencent, Softbank Ventures Korea and HTC Vive X portfolio company.
 
As a Speech Research Scientist focusing on Speech Synthesis, you’ll be working on improving ObEN’s speech synthesis technology. This will include the improvement of our current voice model and the development of new speech generation approaches based on deep generative models.
 
Responsibilities:

● Develop and extend ObEN’s glottal source model, in view of improving the quality, flexibility and control (e.g. voice quality, expressivity) of ObEN’s speech and singing voice synthesis system;

● Develop new speech generation approaches based on deep generative models (e.g. wavenet) with reduced amount of data and better control.
 
Requirements:

● PhD with strong experience in Speech Synthesis demonstrated by publications in top Speech Journals and Conferences (Icassp, Interspeech, etc);

● Expertise in signal processing in particular in the design of voice models (glottal source model, ...) allowing a fine control of the characteristics of the synthesized voice (speech and singing voice);

● Experience in deep generative model of raw audio (wavenet) and Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN);

● Fluent in Python and C++, and good knowledge of deep learning packages (TensorFlow, Theano, Keras, etc);

● Familiarity with linguistic phonetics;

● Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
 
 
Contact: pierre@oben.com