北京招聘

Job # 284294 1047561
Locations China, Beijing
Job families Development (engineering)
Teams AI & Research

Speech Scientist

Speech Scientist (located in Beijing or Suzhou)

Beijing, one of the most vibrant cities in the world. Come to experience the Chinese culture, explosive growth, great shopping and amazing food. The city is very international and easy to live in.

Suzhou, one of the most beautiful cities in China. It is renowned for its beautiful tone bridges, pagodas and meticulously designed gardens, about 100 km northwest of Shanghai.



Responsibilities

Do you want to change the way the world interacts with computers? Do you want to be part of a team that pushes the Natural User Experience to the next level? Do you dream that one day, our world will be populated by robots that will help to do our jobs? Do you want to challenge yourself by innovating in an area that is new to Microsoft yet is an important strategic bet? Do you want to make Microsoft products not only accessible, but highly-functional?



As both computational horsepower and storage capacity reach unprecedented levels, the human race is getting closer and closer to that dream of the natural user interface. Each day we are stepping closer toward being able to interact with computers the same way we interact with another human being. Speech Synthesis (Text-To-Speech) is a key part of that vision. The TTS team’s mission is to build the most human-sounding voices for as many languages in the world as possible, and to create world #1 TTS technology.



The TTS team is looking for a motivated, self-driven software development engineer/scientist to drive the development of our speech synthesis engines. Responsibilities include

1. Advance the state of the art of TTS technology.

2. Improve the speech synthesis quality in terms of naturalness, expressiveness and intelligence.

2. Provides good guidance on core speech synthesis algorithm i***estigations.

3. Work on collaborations with Microsoft Research in the research frontier.

4. Drive the speech synthesis technology roadmap for Microsoft.



Qualifications

1. MSc or PhD in CS/EE (with focus in one or more of Speech Applications) or equivalent experience.

2. Minimum of 3 years experiences working in speech domain.

3. Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative e***ironment.

4. Full understanding of the tradeoffs for decisions made in speech synthesis.

5. Deep Understanding of current speech synthesis research in at least one area (ex: Parametric Speech Synthesis, Unit concatenation speech synthesis, Voice Adaptation, Prosody Modeling etc.).

6. Ability to use multiple orthogonal processes to diagnosis voice quality issues.

7. Ability to reproduce high performance results in voice quality improvement on a consistent basis.

8. Ability to make major modifications speech tools and algorithms to support projects and substantial impact on product success.

9. Software development skills, aptitude for process design.

10. Ability to program in scripting languages.

　　微软亚洲研究院是微软公司在亚太地区设立的研究机构，也是微软在美国本土以外规模最大的一个。从1998年建院到现在, 通过从世界各地吸纳而来的专家学者们的鼎力合作，微软亚洲研究院已经发展成为世界一流的计算机基础研究机构，致力于不断推动整个计算机科学领域的发展，并帮助改善人们的计算体验。
　　目前，微软亚洲研究院共有230多名研究和开发人员以及250多名访问学者和实习生。为实现微软公司的长远发展战略和对未来计算的美好构想，微软亚洲研究院致力于坚持不懈的从事基础的科研活动，目前主要从事五个领域的研究：

•自然用户界面
•新一代多媒体
•以数字为中心的计算
•互联网搜索与在线广告
•计算机科学基础

　　从微软亚洲研究院诞生出来的新技术层出不穷，它们对微软公司，甚至对整个人类社会的进步都起到了非常重要的影响。迄今为止，已有超过300项从微软亚洲研究院诞生的创新技术转移到了微软产品中，包括：Office、Windows、Bing、Visual Studio、Xbox Kinect等。
　　在过去的十三年里，微软亚洲研究院一直努力营造一种奋发、进取与和谐的科研环境，始终强调自由、真诚和平等，强调成员之间的相互信赖、相互尊重与相互协作。研究院鼓励研究人员树立长远眼光和富于冒险的精神；鼓励研究人员要加强与外界的交流，在第一时间接触世界领先的研究成果，倾听产业先驱的声音。微软亚洲研究院承诺与高校和科研机构开展持久而有效的合作，促进协作、激发创新、推进教育，变梦想为现实！