This Thursday Oct 2nd , our Conversational AI RG is honored to host @yoshuabengio.bsky.social , one of the world’s leading pioneers in AI.
He will present: “A Safety Case for the Scientist AI.”
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join us online !
🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html
If you missed my session presenting our recent work “Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!”, you can now find the recording on our YouTube channel and the slides on our website:
▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/iGNotmn5J5A?...
🌐 Website: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html#fall...
I’ll be presenting our survey paper “Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!” at the first Fall 2025 session of the Conversational AI Reading Group.
Looking forward to seeing you there and discussing ideas!
We’re back with a new series of Conversational AI Talks. Everyone’s invited! Feel free to share with your network.
🗓 Every Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
🚀 Kicking off on September 18th with an exciting lineup of speakers.
🔗 More details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
I’m happy to share that our paper, "Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!", has been accepted at TMLR. 🎉
📄 Read: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10274
🔎 Explore our tokenizer database & submit yours: poonehmousavi.github.io/dates-websit...
📢 Presenting our paper “LiSTEN: Learning Soft Token Embeddings for Neural Audio LLMs” — an interpretable fine-tuning method for spoken language understanding.
🗓 Wed, Aug 20 | 08:30–10:30
📍 A11-P2B-03
Hope to see you there!
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18517
@interspeech.bsky.social
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📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper
📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations"
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📅 Thursday, May 29th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Yossi Adi
📖 Topic: "On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models"
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📅 Thursday, May 22nd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Hervé Bredin (@hbredin.bsky.social)
📖 Topic: "Speaker diarization, a (love) loss story"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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📅 Thursday, May 15th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Wen-Chin Huang
📖 Topic: "Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech and Beyond"
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📅 Thursday, May 8th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Leda Sari
📖 Topic: "The Voicebox Model and Its Applications"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀
We’re really excited to have Dan Povey join us for our next Conversational AI Reading Group. He is the creator of the Kaldi toolkit and author of many well-known papers. Don’t miss his talk!
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📅 Thursday, April 24th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Oriol Nieto(urinieto.bsky.social) from Adobe Research
📖 Topic: "GenAI for Sound Design"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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📅 Thursday, April 17th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Titouan Parcollet (@tparcollet.bsky.social) from Samsung AI Center Cambridge
📖 Topic: "Unsupervised on-device adaptation of a speech recogniser and the Pitfalls of "SpeechLLM" evaluation"
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📅 Thursday, April 10th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Karen Livescu from TTIC
📖 Topic: "Toward Understanding Sign Language in the Real World"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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📅 Thursday, April 3rd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Min Ma from Google DeepMind
📖 Topic: "Improving Multilingual Speech Recognition and Language Identification"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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📅 Thursday, March 27 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Xiaoyu Bie (@xiaoyubie.bsky.social ) from Télécom Paris
📖 Topic: "Learning Source Disentanglement in Neural Audio Codec"
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📅 Thursday, March 20 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Julian Parker
📖 Topic: "Making transformers work for audio coding"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀
🚀 If you missed the March 13th session on cutting-edge research in speech dialogue (Moshi) and translation (Hibiki) by Alexandre Défossez( @honualx.bsky.social), the session is now available on our YouTube! 🎥
📺 Watch here: youtu.be/0_c3bw_x6uU?...
📑 Slides here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
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📅 Thursday, March 13 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Alexandre Defossez
📖 Topic: "Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀
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📅 Thursday, Feb 27 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Shinji Watanabe @shinjiw.bsky.social
📖 Topic: "Open Whisper-Style Speech Models: Transparency, Scalability, and Advancing Explainability"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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📅 Thursday, Feb 20 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙Speaker: Jiatong Shi (@jiatongs.bsky.social)
📖 Topic: "Singing Voice Synthesis: Data curation, Modeling, and Evaluation"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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Please plan to come to my virtual talk at the conversational AI reading @convai-rg.bsky.social led by @poonehm.bsky.social! More information👇
If you're passionate about Conversational AI, join my reading group—open to all! 📚
▶️ Missed a session? Catch up on YouTube: youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG
Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎙 #ConvAIReadingGroup"
📢 Join us for the Conversational AI Reading Group meeting on Thursday, February 6th, from 11 AM-12 PM EST.
Hung-yi Lee will present "Teaching Foundation Models New Skills: Insights and Experiences". Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
📢 Join us for the Conversational AI Reading Group meeting on Thursday, January 23rd, 11 AM-12 PM EST.
Piotr Żelasko will present "Foundational Speech Models and Their Efficient Training with NVIDIA NeMo". Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
📢 Join us for the Conversational AI Reading Group meeting on Thursday, January 16th, 11 AM-12 PM EST.
Martijn Bartelds will present "Improving Universal Access to Modern Speech Technology".
Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
Excited to kick off 2025 with our first Conversational AI Reading Group meeting! 📚
📢Join our last meeting of 2024 Conversational AI Reading Group on Thursday 19/12/2024, 11 AM-12 PM EST!
Mirco Ravanelli presents "Discrete Audio Tokens for Multimodal LLMs"
Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
