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

📢 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)

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

📢 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)

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

Convai_rg 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 22nd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Hervé Bredin (Hervé "pyannote" Bredin) 📖 Topic: "Speaker diarization, a (love) loss story" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

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

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

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

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

🚀 If you missed the May 29th session on the landscape of spoken language models by Yossi Adi (Yossi Adi ), 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, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (Herman Kamper) 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 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)

🚀 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 19th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Yuki Mitsufuji (Yuki Mitsufuji) - SonyAI 📖 Topic: "AI for Creators: Pushing Creative Abilities to the Next Level" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

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