# 16 Georgia Maniati

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Speech Pitch

ISCA-SAC

44 episodes

1 week ago

Speech Pitch is ISCA-SAC's (Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association) new podcast! Throughout the episodes, we will interview different guests, mostly from the speech community, in an informal setting. We want to get to know their work, their stories and their ideas for the future. This podcast is hosted by PhD students in speech, with no experience in podcasts, but with the hope that it can bring the students and the entire speech community closer together, especially in pandemic times where we lack presencial conferences and other social interactions. We will try to have a new episode every 2 or 3 months. We hope you enjoy listening to it, and stay tuned!

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# 16 Georgia Maniati

Speech Pitch

1 hour 4 minutes 46 seconds

5 months ago

# 16 Georgia Maniati

In this episode, Georgia Maniati, a Speech Scientist specializing in Text-to-Speech, shares her career path. She recounts her evolution from a linguist to a speech scientist, detailing her experiences in Greece, Edinburgh, and Italy, and how these shaped her current role. Georgia also discusses the current hurdles in text-to-speech technology, particularly for low-resource languages such as Greek.

00:00:11 - intro

00:00:49- Georgia's vita

00:10:20 - Fellowships for young researchers

00:17:04- Georgia's role at Samsung

00:21:31 - hard skills in her position

00:26:47 - recent, exciting projects she worked on

00:31:22 - challenges in developing synthetic voices

00:33:41 - Greek is a low-resource language, which challenges does it imply?

00:34:38 - naturalness of TTS

00:39:03 - mentoring and volunteering activities

00:43:37 - young female researchers in speech

00:45:20 - science communication for non expert audiences

0:53:32 - gender bias in TTS

00:53:37 - current blind spots in industry

00:56:08 - biggest challenges in her journey

00:59:38 - biggest motivation at work and what's next

01:01:11 - what did she wish to know earlier in her career?

01:02:33 - the question from Titouan Parcollet

01:03:49 - her question for the next guest

01:04:19 - outro