Can we understand speech across languages without transcribing it first? 🌍
🎙 Yannick Estève (Avignon Université): "Learning Sentence-Level Speech Representations"
📅 Thu, Oct 22 · 11am–12pm ET · online, open to all
Details & Zoom: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.h…
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📣 Our ICASSP 2027 workshop welcomes work on explainability, robustness, and controllability in speech and audio broadly. No need to focus on audio language models (ALMs) only.
Submissions are open!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 11, 2026 (AoE)
cmsworkshops.com/ICASSP2027/…
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📢 I'm happy to share that our workshop on Explainability, Robustness, and Controllability of Language Modeling for Speech and Audio was accepted at @ieeeICASSP !
If you have ongoing relevant to these topics, consider submitting your work.
📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
📖 Improving spoken language identification for non-native speech.
📅 Thursday, April 23 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Tanel Alumäe (@TanelAlumae) - Tallinn University of Technology
📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
📖 Faithful and Grounded Audio Language Models.
📅 Thursday, April 9 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Cem Subakan(@CemSubakan) - Mila
@Mila_Quebec
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🎙 Speaker: Jonathan Le Roux(@JonathanLeRoux) - MERL
📖 Prompt-Conditioned Unified Audio Modeling: From Source Separation to Source-Aware Codecs.
📅 Thursday, March 26 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
🎙 Speaker: Yiwen Shao - Tencent AI Lab
📖 Auden: From audio encoders to Large Audio Language Model.
📅 Thursday, March 5 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.h…
📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group:
We’re happy to welcome :
🎙 Speaker: Samuele Cornell @SamueleCornell - Carnegie Mellon University
📖 Conversational Speech Processing: Challenges & Opportunities
📅 Thursday, Feb 26 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
📢 This week's Talk:
📖 Towards Accountable Conversational Agents for Task Completion
📅 Thursday, Feb 12 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Dilek Hakkani-Tür - UIUC @dilekhakkanitur
▶️ YouTube channel: youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG
🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
📢 This week’s talk:
📖 Model-based audio deep learning with application to source separation and dereverberation
📅 Thursday, Feb 5 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Gaël Richard —Télécom Paris)
▶️ YouTube channel: youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG
🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.h…