🗣️🧠 Speech Language Models require lots of compute to train, right? In our new paper, we test is it possible to train an SLM on 1xA5000 gpu in 24 hours? The results may surprise you (they even surprised us)! Tips, open source resources, full paper 👇🏻

📢 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)

I'll present a dive into Moshi 🟢 and our translation model Hibiki 🇫🇷♻️🇬🇧 in the next Convai_rg reading group👨‍🏫📗. 📅 13/03 🕰️ 11am ET, 4pm in Paris. I'll discuss Mimi 🗜️ and multistream audio modeling 🔊. Join on Zoom, replay on YT. ⬛⬛🟧🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟧🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛

The talk starts at 11 (in 10 mins)! Don't miss the opportunity to learn from the co-founder of the leading company Kyutai about Moshi and their recent translation model, Hibiki.

🚀 If you missed the March 13th session on cutting-edge research in speech dialogue (Moshi) and translation (Hibiki) by Alexandre Défossez( Alexandre Défossez ), the session is now available on our YouTube! 🎥 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/0_c3bw_x6uU?si… 📑 Slides here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 20 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Julian Parker 📖 Topic: "Making transformers work for audio coding" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀

Announcing the 3rd LoG-NYC Workshop, happening on 4/21-4/22 at Flatiron Institute! Check out our fantastic speaker lineup and event details in log-nyc.github.io. Registration required and poster submission open till 4/14 — please register here: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/90116c4e…

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 27 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Xiaoyu Bie(XIAOYU BIE ) from Télécom Paris 📖 Topic: "Learning Source Disentanglement in Neural Audio Codec" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 3rd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Min Ma from Google DeepMind 📖 Topic: "Improving Multilingual Speech Recognition and Language Identification" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 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)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 17th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Titouan Parcollet from Samsung AI Center Cambridge 📖 Topic: "Unsupervised on-device adaptation of a speech recogniser and the Pitfalls of "SpeechLLM" evaluation"

🚨I am honored to give an online invited talk at the Conversational AI Reading Group, MILA Convai_rg on 5/15 11am-12pm EDT (5/16 0-1am Japan time), titled "Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech and Beyond"! Please find more info on the website: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

📢 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)

We’re really excited to have Dan Povey join us for our next Conversational AI Reading Group. He is the creator of the Kaldi toolkit and author of many well-known papers. Don’t miss his talk!

📢 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/…

... 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, 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)