🎓 Amrutha Prasad (supervised by Petr Motlíček) will defend her PhD thesis on "Parameter efficient models for domain specific speech & language recognition." 📅 Thu, July 9, 2026 @ 10:00 CEST 💻 Zoom: cesnet.zoom.us/j/99705754773 Huge thanks to the committee and the reviewers.

Huge congrats to Alex Polok for winning 2nd place at the Bull & French Embassy in the Czech Republic computer science PhD awards! 🇨🇿🇫🇷 His work tracks "who said what when several people talk at once, across languages." Alex also won the IT4Innovations supercomputing award! 🏆💻

Do not miss BUT Speech papers at ICASSP 2026! The conference paper search system cmsworkshops.com/ICASSP2026/… does not allow looking up "Brno" among organizations. Please, search for papers 14288, 11276, 16450, 14046, 5009, 2885, 9955, 1139, 5022, 5021, 17573, 18779 and 13

Great news: Li et al.’s IEEE-TASLP paper on Bayesian Neural Representation Augmentations for Domain Generalization in Speaker Verification and Anti-Spoofing is now in Early Access on IEEE Xplore. Read & cite: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…

Good news: Jiangyu et al.’s IEEE-TASLP paper on efficient, generalizable speaker diarization is now in Early Access on IEEE Xplore. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…

Bio-inspired VGS-IT talk next week. Giulia D’Angelo “What’s catching your eye? – Event-driven sensing & neuromorphic computing for active vision” 🗓 Thu, Mar 26, 14:00 📍 Room A113 (FIT BUT) / YouTube Abstract below: vgs-it.fit.vutbr.cz/2026/03/…

Alex Polok has started an internship at CMU’s @WavLab (LTI), continuing DiCoW research on diarization-conditioned target-speaker ASR with Whisper (JSALT 2025). Next: extending to SpeechLLMs (DiXtral) and joint diarization + TS-ASR toward end-to-end speaker-aware models.

Ladislav Mošner will defend his PhD dissertation “Far-Field Speaker Verification Incorporating Multichannel Processing” on Wed 14 Jan at 09:00 CET. 📍 FIT BUT, G108 or 💻 via MS Teams. Official announcement & abstract: fit.vut.cz/fit/info/dd/2026/… MS-Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…

Exam period is in full swing at our Faculty of IT 📚 On Fri, Jan 9, over 500 2nd-year bachelor students took the Signals & Systems (ISS) exam. Honza promised reference fixes… but seems he delegated them (again!) to his cat Kaja 😼

On Jan 13, Prachi Singh will give an online talk on Speaker Diarization as part of a Faculty Development Programme by UPES, Dehradun 🇮🇳. The session covers current trends with hands-on insights. See the LinkedIN page for details: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

Honza will be speaking at the 2nd MBZUAI Speech & NLP Symposium in Abu Dhabi, organized by Hanan Aldarmaki, Bashar Alhafni, Preslav Nakov and Thamar Solorio from the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. ai-nexus.mbzuai.ac.ae/?panel…

All the best for 2026 from the Brno crew !

After presenting at USC (thanks Shri Narayanan), Alex Polok & Sathvik Udupa are sharing their ASRU posters in Honolulu on Dec 8. 10:30-12:00 and 14:00-15:30 respectively. Don’t miss them—and Sara Barahona presenting our VoxCeleb work too!

Hynek Heřmanský received the 2025 Czech AI Award at Vzlet, Prague! Born in Nové Město na Moravě, with a career spanning OGI, JHU and Google, he’s known for RASTA/PLP and early NN advocacy. Congrats to Hynek and thanks to Czech AI Platform & JIC!

Last week we welcomed Prof. Jan G. Švec for a great talk on how the human voice works—from source-filter basics to advanced biomechanics. Big thanks to FIT BUT’s Students’ Union for the venue and A/V support! vgs-it.fit.vutbr.cz/2025/11/…

Great news from Phonexia: new growth chapter with Crescendo Equity Partners as 100% owner! Founded in 2006 by 6 Speech@FIT members, Phonexia will see accelerated expansion and R&D investment in speech tech for security/defense and business sectors.

Lin Zhang, longtime Brno collaborator now at JHU, will present the IEEE SPS talk on partially fake speech on Nov 20, 2025, 9:30 AM ET. Also see her Interspeech paper “PartialEdit.” landing.signalprocessingsoci… isca-archive.org/interspeech…

The Czech National AI Platform is a joint initiative of the public, private, and non-profit sectors. BUT Speech@FIT is proud to be a part of it. We recommend also having a look at the other Czech AI companies and University labs! cnaip.cz/en/czech-ai

We're wrapping up the #JSALT2025 workshop this Thu & Fri with team presentations after 8 weeks of work in Brno! Join us in person (D105 @ FIT) or online. Full agenda: jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/summer-…. Don’t miss Sanjeev’s summary Thu morning: “How we got here and what we discovered”!