Mateusz Kotarski is passionate about data analysis and data mining for marketing and research purpose. Currently he is analyzing big financial data connected with business travels in the biggest companies.Â
Kamil Pokora is an Applied Scientist intern working for TTS research. He received his BSc in Computer Science from the Gdansk University of Technology. He is working on speech quality improvements for Alexa voices.
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18:00 - Meeting boarding
18:05 - 18.10 - About PyData Trojmiasto and Amazon Development Center
18:10 - 18:50 - "Generative Adversarial Networks for Neutral TTS" Kamil Pokora (prezentacja w języku polskim)
·        *A short introduction to generative adversarial networks
·        *Use cases of GANs
·        *GANs in TTS context
18:50 - 19.00 - Tea break
19:00 - 19.40 - "What is this noise all about" Mateusz Kotarski (prezentacja w języku polskim)
·        *What is noise
·        *Some benefits of noise
·        *Gas sensors as the source of noise
·        *How to process and measure noise data
·        *Real life results/examples.
·       *Q/A
19.45 - Meeting closure
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