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Speech & Voice Researcher (Ira)

Build Ira — voice-first AI that speaks and listens across Indian languages.

ResearchRemote, IndiaFull-time

About the role

You'll lead speech research for Ira, our upcoming voice assistant — TTS, ASR, and real-time multimodal voice for Indian languages and accents.

What you'll do

  • Research and train TTS/ASR and speech-to-speech models
  • Push quality on Indian languages, accents, and code-mixed speech
  • Build evals for naturalness, latency, and intelligibility
  • Collaborate with the multimodal (omni) model team

What we're looking for

  • Speech/audio ML experience (TTS, ASR, or speech LLMs)
  • Strong PyTorch and audio-data pipelines
  • Research depth in speech or adjacent areas

Nice to have

  • Indian-language speech datasets
  • Real-time/streaming audio
  • Voice cloning expertise

Sound like you?

We hire for skill over credentials. Tell us why you're a fit — links and projects welcome.

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