📢 This week at our Conv AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome : 🎙 Speaker: Ricard Marxer ( @ricard.bsky.social) - Université de Toulon, ILLS, CNRS 📖 Advancing the Linguistic Capabilities of Speech Language Models. 📅 Thursday, March 12 | 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.html

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group: We’re happy to welcome : 🎙 peaker: Samuele Cornell @popcornell.bsky.social - Carnegie Mellon University 📖 Conversational Speech Processing: Challenges & Opportunities 📅 Thursday, Feb 26 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome : 🎙 Speaker: Tiago H. Falk - INRS 📖 Amplitude Modulation Spectral Analysis: From Conventional Audio Feature Engineering to Speech Foundation Models 📅 Thursday, Feb 19 | 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 @dilekh.bsky.social ▶️ 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: www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG 🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

🎉 ConvAI Reading Group is back for 2026! This week we welcome Daniel P. W. Ellis (Google DeepMind) presenting his ICML paper: 🎧 Recomposer: Event-roll-guided Audio Editing 📅 Thu, Jan 29 | 11 AM EST 🔗 poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html ▶️ youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG

📢 Join the final Conversational AI Reading Group meeting of 2025! 📅 Thursday, Dec 18th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Daniel D'souza - Cohere Labs 📖 Topic: "Data as Leverage: Improving Foundation Models Beyond Scaling." 🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html @cohereforai.bsky.social

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Dec 11th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Tatiana Likhomanenko - Apple 📖 Topic: "Low-latency Conversational Agent." 🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

📢This week, our Conversational AI Reading Group is excited to have Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave from Universidad de Antioquia. 📅 Thursday, Nov 27th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 📖 Topic: "Multimodal analysis of Parkinson’s disease symptoms." 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group. ⚠️Please note this talk starts at 10:00 AM (EST) as an exception. 📅 Thursday, Nov 20th | 10 AM - 11AM EST 🎙 Speaker: Marc Delcroix - NTT Communication Science Laboratories 📖 Topic: "Neural Target Speech and Sound Extraction" 🔗 Details: (lnkd.in/eWruCDV6)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Nov 13th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Simone Scardapane (@sscardapane.bsky.social ) - Sapienza University of Rome 📖 Topic: "Efficient and resource-constrained dynamic neural networks" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Nov 6th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Emmanouil Benetos ( @emmanouilb.bsky.social ) - Queen Mary University of London 📖 Topic: "Machine learning paradigms for music and audio understanding" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group to know more about Google Gemini 2.5, a natively multimodal audio model developed over the past year. 📅 Thursday, Oct 30th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Michael Han - Google DeepMind 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Oct 23rd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Joan Serrà ( @serrjoa.bsky.social ) - Sony AI 📖 Topic: "Supervised contrastive learning from weakly-labeled audio segments for musical version matching" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢This week, our Conversational AI Reading Group is excited to have Jinyu Li from Microsoft. Please note: This week’s session will start one hour later than usual, at 12:00 PM instead of 11:00 AM. 📅 Thursday, Oct 16th | 12:00 - 13:00 EST 📖 Topic: "The development of spoken LM"

📢 Schedule Update! The Oct 9th session will start 15 minutes earlier than usual at 10:45 AM. Please make sure to mark this change in your calendar so you don’t miss it!

📢This week, our Conversational AI Reading Group is excited to have Fabio Antonacci from Politecnico di Milano. 📅 Thursday, Oct 9th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Fabio Antonacci - Politecnico di Milano 📖 Topic: "AI-based Spatial Audio" 🔗 Details: (lnkd.in/eWruCDV6)

If you missed Yoshua Bengio 's session presenting “A safety case for the Scientist AI”, you can now find the recording on our YouTube channel and the slides on our website: YouTube: youtu.be/bzORaP6cAGI Website: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

This Thursday Oct 2nd , our Conversational AI RG is honored to host @yoshuabengio.bsky.social , one of the world’s leading pioneers in AI. He will present: “A Safety Case for the Scientist AI.” Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join us online ! 🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Sep 25th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Themos Stafylakis 📖 Topic: "Advances in Speaker Recognition: Pruning, Deepfake Detection, and Learning without Temporal Labels" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 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) @MousaviPooneh 📖 Topic: “Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!” 🌐 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

We’re back with a new series of Conversational AI Talks. Everyone’s invited! Feel free to share with your network. 🗓 Every Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT 🚀 Kicking off on September 18th with an exciting lineup of speakers. 🔗 More 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

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 26th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Dinesh Manocha - 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 - 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 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 📖 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, the full session is now available on our YouTube channel! 🎥 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/2d1MU280yQk?... 📑 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 📖 Topic: "On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 22nd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Hervé Bredin (@hbredin.bsky.social) 📖 Topic: "Speaker diarization, a (love) loss story" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀

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

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 24th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Oriol Nieto(urinieto.bsky.social) from Adobe Research 📖 Topic: "GenAI for Sound Design" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀

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

📢 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) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_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, March 27 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Xiaoyu Bie (@xiaoyubie.bsky.social ) from Télécom Paris 📖 Topic: "Learning Source Disentanglement in Neural Audio Codec" 🔗 Details: (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: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀

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

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 13 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Alexandre Defossez 📖 Topic: "Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Feb 27 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Shinji Watanabe @shinjiw.bsky.social 📖 Topic: "Open Whisper-Style Speech Models: Transparency, Scalability, and Advancing Explainability" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Feb 20 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Jiatong Shi (@jiatongs.bsky.social) 📖 Topic: "Singing Voice Synthesis: Data curation, Modeling, and Evaluation" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube:

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Feb 13 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Minje Kim (minjekim.bsky.social) 📖 Topic:"Scalable and Efficient Speech Enhancement"* 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀

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

📢 Join us for the Conversational AI Reading Group meeting on Thursday, January 23rd, 11 AM-12 PM EST. Piotr Żelasko will present "Foundational Speech Models and Their Efficient Training with NVIDIA NeMo". Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

📢 Join us for the Conversational AI Reading Group meeting on Thursday, January 16th, 11 AM-12 PM EST. Martijn Bartelds will present "Improving Universal Access to Modern Speech Technology". Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

📢 Join us for the first Conversational AI Reading Group meeting of 2025 on Thursday, January 9th, 11 AM-12 PM EST. Haibin Wu will present "Neural Audio Codecs in the Era of Speech LMs". Details here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg

📢Join our last meeting of 2024 Conversational AI Reading Group on Thursday 19/12/2024, 11 AM-12 PM EST! Mirco Ravanelli presents "Discrete Audio Tokens for Multimodal LLMs" Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg