Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akkodis is seeking an AI/ML Engineer - Speech Data Scientist for a contract position. The role focuses on benchmarking and improving speech AI and text-to-speech models, analyzing accuracy and bias, preparing speech training data, and collaborating on product development, code reviews, and technical problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Measure and benchmark model performance
- Maintain TTS model evaluation system
- Analyze model accuracy and bias and recommend the next course of action & Improvements
- Improve processes for speech data processing, augmentation, filtering & TTS Training sets preparation
- Gather knowhow on TTS datasets for training & evaluation
- Characterize performance and quality metrics across platforms for various speech AI components
- Collaborate with various teams on new product features and improvements of existing products
- Participate in developing and reviewing code, design documents, use case reviews, and test plan reviews
- Help innovate, identify problems, recommend solutions and perform triage in a collaborative team environment
Skills
- Master's degree (or equivalent experience) or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Math, Linguistics or Computational Linguistics
- 5+ years of experience
- Excellent programming skills in Python
- Strong fundamentals in Programming, optimizations and Software design
- Strong knowledge of ML/DL techniques, algorithms and tools with exposure to CNN, RNN (LSTM), Transformers
- Know how of Deep learning applications to Speech synthesis, LLM, and Speech-to-speech translations
- Hands-on experience on Speech Technologies like Speech Synthesis, voice cloning, etc
- Experience with Training of speech models
- Experience with “PyTorch” Deep Learning Frameworks
- Exposure to basic speech digital signal processing and feature extraction techniques like FFT, MFCC, Mel Spectrogram, etc
- General background around version control and code review tools like Git, Gerrit, Gitlab
- Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment
- Native or near-native fluency in a non-English language - Spanish / Mandarin / German / Japanese / Russian / French / UK English / Arabic / Hindi / Korean / Italian / Portuguese
- Experience developing multilingual code-switched TTS, voice cloning, and cross-lingual voice cloning
- Experience developing WFST and Neural networks-based Text-Normalization and Inverse Text-Normalization
- Experience working with G2P systems for multiple languages
- Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies related to foreign languages, linguistics, phonetics, phonology and language technology
- Feeling comfortable and motivated when working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
- Strong C++ programming skills
- Familiarity with GPU based technologies like CUDA, CuDNN and TensorRT
- Background with deploying machine learning models on data center, cloud, and embedded systems
Benefits
- For associates, benefit offerings include medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan.
- Associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law.
- Associates may be eligible for Holiday pay where applicable.
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