I'm happy to give a talk this Thursday on “Discrete #Audio Tokens for Multimodal #LLMs" at the #ConversationalAI Reading Group at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA . It is open to everyone! #DeepLearning #AI #LLM #SpeechBrain #Audio #Speech #Research #ConversationalAI

We are working hard to organize the 35th #IEEE #MachineLearning for #SignalProcessing Workshop (MLSP) in #Istanbul (Aug 31–Sept 3, 2025)! It will be an unforgettable event with inspiring #research, talks, and keynotes. Paper submissions: Apr 22, 2025 2025.ieeemlsp.org/en/

Our Speech-LLM diagnosis paper "What Are They Doing? Joint Audio-Speech Co-Reasoning" is accepted at #ICASSP 2025. Your model behaves more like an Audio-LLM or a Speech-LLM? See our specially designed task and dataset: Paper:arxiv.org/pdf/2409.14526 Github:github.com/BenoitWang/Wha…

📢 Join us for the Conversational AI Reading Group meeting on Thursday, February 6th, from 11 AM-12 PM EST. Hung-yi Lee (李宏毅) will present "Teaching Foundation Models New Skills: Insights and Experiences". Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

My lab is running an amazing Reading Group on #ConversationalAI, open to all! This week (Feb 6, 11 AM EST) we host Hung-yi Lee, a top #AI researcher! He’ll talk about: "Teaching Foundation Models New Skills: Insights and Experiences". 🌍 Website: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

As an organizer of #IEEE #MLSP2025, I can say we’re preparing an amazing event in a wonderful city (#İstanbul ) We expect many speech papers as well. If you missed #Interspeech, submit to MLSP! Deadline: April 22 – Don’t miss it! 2025.ieeemlsp.org/en/

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 13 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Alexandre Defossez Alexandre Défossez 📖 Topic: "Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

#IEEE MLSP 2025 – Call for Papers The OpenReview portal is now open! 📅 Deadline: April 22, 2025 🔗 Website: 2025.ieeemlsp.org We welcome #papers on #deeplearning, #speech/#audio, #LLMs, #CV, #NLP, #EEG, #optimization, #fintech, #healthcare, #wireless comms, & more!

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📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 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)

Huge thanks to NVIDIA AI Developer for the NVIDIA Academic Grant #NVIDIAGrant! My team is already using the donated GPU hours on Saturn Cloud to accelerate our research. So grateful! #research #AI #SpeechBrain #GPU #A100 #DeepLearning #OpenSource #NVIDIA

Deadline Extended !!! The paper submission deadline for #IEEE MLSP 2025 is now April 29, 2025. We hope this gives more authors the chance to contribute! More info: 2025.ieeemlsp.org/en/CALL-FOR-PA… Please share! #MLSP2025 #MachineLearning #SignalProcessing #DeepLearning #CallForPapers

IEEE MLSP 2025: Deadline extended! The submission deadline is now May 6. - New papers welcome - Revisions accepted 2025.ieeemlsp.org/en/ Don't miss this chance to contribute! #MLSP2025 #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #SignalProcessing #IEEE #CallForPapers #Research

📢 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)

Our pick of the week by Beomseok LEE: "ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs" by Pooneh Mousavi, yingzhi wang, Mirco Ravanelli, and Cem Subakan (2025) arxiv.org/abs/2505.19937 #SLU #speech #multimodal #LLM

🚀 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/

📢 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 2025

📢 Our Conversational AI Reading Group is back! Join the first Fall 2025 session! 🤖 📅 Thursday, Sept 18 | 11 AM–12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Pooneh Mousavi (Mila) Pooneh Mousavi 📖 Topic: “Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!” 🌐 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

Our Conversational AI Reading Group (led by Pooneh Mousavi) resumes tomorrow! Sept 18 | 11:00 AM EST Amazing speakers, great talks, open to all. Perfect for anyone in #DeepLearning & #ConversationalAI More info: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg #AI #MachineLearning #OpenScience

Tomorrow (Sept 25, 11:00–12:00 EST), our #ConversationalAI Reading Group hosts Themos Stafylakis (Athens Univ. & Omilia). Talk: Advances in Speaker Recognition: Pruning, Deepfake Detection & Learning w/o Temporal Labels Info: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html #AI #SpeechProcessing