Recently, the Alexa Text-to-Speech (TTS) team announced a new neural TTS technology that enables a multilingual model to use the same voice for Spanish and English responses.
On Feb. 25, Jeff Blankenburg hosted Kayoko Yanagisawa, senior speech scientist, on Alexa & Friends to discuss this recent development and other speech research topics. Watch the recorded interview to hear more about Yanagisawa’s career history, the TTS challenges that come with languages other than English, and the science behind Alexa’s Polyglot system.
Yanagisawa has more than 15 years of experience in speech research, with a doctorate in experimental phonetics and a master’s in phonetics from University College London.
