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