Convai_rg

📢 The Conversational AI Reading Group is on summer break in July & August. We'll return in September with exciting new speakers! Catch up on past sessions here: 🔗 Website: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 26th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Dinesh Manocha (@dmanocha) - University of Maryland 📖 Topic: "Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 19th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Yuki Mitsufuji (@mittu1204) - SonyAI 📖 Topic: "AI for Creators: Pushing Creative Abilities to the Next Level" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

🚀 We're excited to announce our latest work: "Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!" It presents a comprehensive survey and benchmark of audio tokenizers across speech, music, and general audio. preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10274 website: poonehmousavi.github.io/dates-website/

🎵💬 If you are interested in Audio Tokenisers, you should check out our new work! We empirically analysed existing tokenisers from every way - reconstruction, downstream, LMs and more. Grab yourself a ☕/🍺 and sit down for a read!

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 12th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Andros Tjandra 📖 Topic: "Meta Audiobox Aesthetics: Unified Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech, Music, and Sound" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (@HermanKamper) 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

🚀 If you missed the May 29th session on the landscape of spoken language models by Yossi Adi (@adiyossLC ), the full session is now available on our YouTube channel! 🎥 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/2d1MU280yQk?si… 📑 Slides available here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 29th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Yossi Adi @adiyossLC 📖 Topic: "On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

Learn about speaker diarization, the science behind it, and the future of diarization at ⁦@pyannoteAI⁩ research labs youtu.be/ECqxZgVevuI?fe…

Learn about speaker diarization from the pyannote himself (our chief science officer).

... in which I'll talk about my decade-old love for speaker diarization and the loss functions used to train underlying neural networks

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 22nd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Hervé Bredin (@hbredin) 📖 Topic: "Speaker diarization, a (love) loss story" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

@convAI2024 Thank you for having me, and thank you all the listeners! I had a great time 🙌 If you missed it, here's the recording and the slides! Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=REH034… Slides: poonehmousavi.github.io/assets/slides/…

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 15th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Wen-Chin Huang (@unilightwf) 📖 Topic: "Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech and Beyond" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) , (youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 8th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Leda Sari 📖 Topic: "The Voicebox Model and Its Applications" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

Really interesting talk from Titouan Parcollet! Especially the part about SpeechLLMs for ASR

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 1st | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Daniel Povey from Xiaomi Corp. 📖 Topic: "CR-CTC: Consistency regularization on CTC for improved speech recognition" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 24th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Oriol Nieto(@urinieto) from Adobe Research 📖 Topic: "GenAI for Sound Design" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)