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We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars

Next webinar:

*Speaker:* Elena Sokolova (Amazon Text-to-Speech Group) *Title:* How we do research in Speech at Amazon *Date: * Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 15:00 CET

*Summary:* In this talk we will present how Speech technology has developed in the past 20 years. We will take a dive deep into the research that we do at Amazon in our Text-to-Speech lab, describe the challenges that we face and how we solve them at scale. We will also give an overview of the internship opportunities we have in our department for those of you who want to join our team in 2025.

*Bio:* Elena is a Machine Learning team manager at Amazon, where she leads novel research in the field of speech technology. Over the past five years, she has overseen the deployment of machine learning projects into production and collaborated with her team to publish cutting-edge research on text-to-speech technology. Before joining Amazon, Elena completed her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and gained industry experience as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com. * Upcoming webinars:* · Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) · Ekaterina Shutova (January 30, 2025) · Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025)

If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea

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Best wishes,

HiTZ Zentroa

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