Representative responsibilities/duties will include but not limited to:
Design and optimize text/NLP preprocessing pipelines with Deep Learning or Machine Learning methods, including Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion for multilingual support; Text normalization; polyphone disambiguation; Prosody prediction and control
Integrate language models (e.g., BERT, GPT variants) to improve contextual and semantic understanding for natural intonation
Develop rule-based and neural solutions for emotion/style control in synthesized speech
Build state-of-the-art acoustic models (e.g., VITS, VALL-E, CosyVoice) to map linguistic features to spectrograms or waveform parameters.
Optimize neural vocoders (e.g., HiFi-GAN, MelGAN, Vocos) for high-fidelity, real-time speech synthesis
Optimize inference latencies for both edge devices and cloud platforms
Enhance robustness through noise suppression, speaker adaptation, and multilingual/cross-language/cross -gender voice cloning
Knowledge, skills, and qualifications
Education: Master in CS, AI, EE, Math, or related field.
Required/preferred skills
2+ years of hands-on experience in TTS system development with deep expertise in both frontend and backend components
Proficiency in C/C++ and Python, with mastery of ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc)
Some background in NLP techniques and/or speech signal processing is a plus
Knowledge on transformer-based language models for prosody prediction
Basic understanding of autoregressive / non-autoregressive acoustic models and neural vocoders
Experience in optimizing models via quantization, pruning, or knowledge distillation
Experience with ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, or TorchScript, etc
Experience with zero-shot/one-shot/few-shot voice cloning or emotional TTS systems
Skilled GPU/TPU cluster and grid user
Fluent English is a must-have
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