Lead Research Scientist, Real-Time TTS & Voice Synthesis

Oddin; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Valka, a spin-off from the Realms Group and associated with Oddin .gg, is seeking researchers to push forward real-time, co-created digital voice experiences. You will train cutting-edge TTS models, investigate architectures, and rapidly translate findings into production-ready systems.

The role requires strong ML fundamentals, Python expertise, and a passion for staying ahead of the latest in speech synthesis research. Collaborative team environment with support for deployment infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience with training text-to-speech or voice cloning models.
• Solid knowledge of modern ML architectures used in speech and audio.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries.

Responsibilities

• Research and train fast and quality SOTA TTS models for realistic voice generation.
• Experiment with architectures and data to improve quality and speed and put results to production.
• Stay up to date with research and generate ideas for improvements.
• Collaborate with a team of researchers, supported by engineering and hardware for deployment.

Skills

Text-to-speech models

Transformers

Diffusion models

GANs

Speech processing

Python

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Valka, a spin-off from the Realms Group and associated with Oddin .gg, is seeking researchers to push forward real-time, co-created digital voice experiences. You will train cutting-edge TTS models, investigate architectures, and rapidly translate findings into production-ready systems.

The role requires strong ML fundamentals, Python expertise, and a passion for staying ahead of the latest in speech synthesis research. Collaborative team environment with support for deployment infrastructure.