Get ready to dive into an exhilarating interview experience where you'll be tasked with designing a cutting-edge Generative AI-powered text-to-speech system akin to ElevenLabs. You'll tackle real-world challenges such as real-time audio synthesis, low-latency model serving, and voice cloning on a large scale. This interview is structured to simulate the rigorous design discussions you would encounter at top tech companies, providing an authentic and enriching preparation session. Your interviewer, Edward, will guide you through a series of phases, probing your knowledge and thought process to ensure a thorough understanding of the system design.

What You'll Practice:

• Sharpen your ability to define functional and non-functional requirements essential for a high-fidelity, low-latency TTS system.
• Discuss and evaluate various model architectures and their trade-offs to fit specific project needs.
• Explore the complexities of data acquisition and preparation, and how to maintain quality and avoid biases.
• Delve into training pipelines, model fine-tuning, and evaluation metrics to ensure your TTS system meets quality benchmarks.
• Develop detailed system design diagrams and address deployment challenges like scaling, latency, and security.

By the end of this interview, you will be better equipped to handle complex system design interviews, particularly those involving generative AI technologies. You'll have honed your skills in designing scalable, efficient, and high-performance text-to-speech systems, ready to impress in your next technical interview.