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Job Title: Text To Speech Technical Lead
Qualifications:
The TTS team at ATC, Microsoft China R&D group has openings for senior
technical to explore and execute serious technology development tasks.
These positions are mainly for senior individual contributors that are
able to work in our existing product development team and provide great
technical depth in advanced technology development. He/She is expected
to excel in domain knowledge in relevant areas of Text To Speech
technology.
The successful candidates will be leading major technology areas in the
TTS product research and development at ATC. We are looking for a go-to
person mindset and very focus and in-depth technology owner. Passionate
about TTS, Speech technology and team player is a must! The candidates
must demonstrate track records of delivering or completing challenging
tasks in the past.
The success candidate should have:
1. A degree (PhD preferred) in computer science or EE with 3+ years
experiences (industrial preferred, but academic accepted with proven
records) or in Text To Speech technology areas.
2. Research (Post doc in relevant areas) or advanced product development
experience in TTS areas.
3. Track record of completing a significant project with major
contribution, or lead a small team in accomplishing relevant tasks in
TTS relevant areas.
4. Excellent and proven skills in (>= 2 combinations):
a. Natural language processing, computational linguistics and Text
analysis
b. Unit selection or source-filter base computational approaches.
c. Digital signal processing, familiar with speech synthesis algorithm
d. Hidden Markov Model and pattern recognition technology
e. Machine learning, , statistical analysis and algorithms applied in
speech technology (benefit if used in TTS related technology).
f. Natural prosody prediction and realization in TTS
5. Proficiency of using scripts (e.g., Matlab, Perl, Prolog, Python) and
programming languages (C/C++, C#, Java)
6. Excellent written and verbal English communication skill, this
position requires meeting with internal and external customers or
companies.
7. Strong problem solving skill. Ability to participate in long term
product planning and strategy setting on technology roadmap.
Location of the job:
Beijing, China
Closing date for applications:
Jan, 31, 2007 (flexible)
Contact Information:
Chiwei Che
Email cchiwei@microsoft.com
Phone: +86-10-58963937
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