Talk details
Title: Applying Linguistics Knowledge to Speech Technology
Speaker: Dr. Cong Zhang (DPhil, Oxford University), Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology, Newcastle University, UK.
Date: 16 October 2022
Time: 6 PM (IST)
Speaker’s bio
Dr. Cong Zhang is a lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at Newcastle University (UK). She received her DPhil degree from the University of Oxford. Following her DPhil, she worked as a TTS Linguistics Engineer & Linguist at A-Lab, Rokid Inc., where she worked on various tasks for developing a TTS system, and led a project for developing a Singing TTS. Cong’s research covers various aspects of speech prosody; she is also interested in bridging the gap between linguistics theories and speech technology.