Burlingame, CA30+ days ago
Key Requirements and Technology Experience: Must have skills: - "Linguistics Expertise (Turkish)”, “Text to Speech (TTS)”, “Python", “SQL” Core responsibilities of TTS: Build and improve TTS models (speech generation) to sound more natural, expressive, and robust, including things like prosody and non-verbal cues (e.g., laughter/breath) Multilingual i18n support: expand language coverage and handle tricky cases like code-switching, accents, and language ID Deploy/integrate models into products (sometimes including on-device inference constraints for wearables) Evaluation quality measurement: develop pipelines/guidelines to measure naturalness and expressivity Native speaker expertise for new TTS locales Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field. Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.