SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (Singing Voice 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 singing voice generation, you’ll be working on improving the overall quality and control of ObEN’s virtual singing technology.
 
Responsibilities:

● Develop and improve ObEN’s virtual singing voice technology based on novel voice model with improved glottal source modelingl;

● Explore new approaches for singing voice generation based on deep generative models;

● Develop singing voice generation approach from musical annotation.
 
Requirements:

● PhD with strong experience in speech synthesis, preferably singing voice synthesis demonstrated by publications in top Speech journals and conferences (Icassp, Interspeech, etc);

● Good experience in deep generative models and sequential modelling;

● Strong implementation skills and knowledge in ML;

● Fluent in Python and C++, and good knowledge of deep learning packages;

● Familiarity with linguistic phonetics;

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