Research Scientist, Text-to-Speech

• Experience with training some text-to-speech / voice cloning models
• Solid knowledge of transformers, diffusion models, GANs
• Understanding of human speech and audio processing (sampling, spectrograms, vocoders)
• Proficiency in Python and key libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Ability to keep up to date with research, understand papers, implement approaches; strong ML fundamentals and critical thinking

• Familiarity with modern speech synthesis models (GPT-based, flow matching… such as Vevo, StyleTTS, IndexTTS, Maskgct etc.)
• Contributions to open-source AI tools or research publications in Speech processing field
• Familiarity with AWS / similar clusters

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