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Do not miss BUT Speech papers at ICASSP 2026!

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Great news: Li et al.’s IEEE-TASLP paper on Bayesian Neural Representation Augmentations for Domain Generalization in Speaker Verification and Anti-Spoofing is now in Early Access on IEEE Xplore.

Read & cite: https://t.co/Q5yEV993ix

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Good news: Jiangyu et al.’s IEEE-TASLP paper on efficient, generalizable speaker diarization is now in Early Access on IEEE Xplore.

https://t.co/XtnM0bMVz8

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Bio-inspired VGS-IT talk next week.

Giulia D’Angelo
“What’s catching your eye? – Event-driven sensing & neuromorphic computing for active vision”
🗓 Thu, Mar 26, 14:00
📍 Room A113 (FIT BUT) / YouTube

Abstract below:
https://t.co/zuMBtwwwID

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Alex Polok has started an internship at CMU’s @WavLab (LTI), continuing DiCoW research on diarization-conditioned target-speaker ASR with Whisper (JSALT 2025).
Next: extending to SpeechLLMs (DiXtral) and joint diarization + TS-ASR toward end-to-end speaker-aware models.

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Ladislav Mošner will defend his PhD dissertation “Far-Field Speaker Verification Incorporating Multichannel Processing” on Wed 14 Jan at 09:00 CET.
📍 FIT BUT, G108 or 💻 via MS Teams.

Official announcement & abstract: https://t.co/0hA9sxLISM

MS-Teams: https://t.co/OWCL55Qltk

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Exam period is in full swing at our Faculty of IT 📚 On Fri, Jan 9, over 500 2nd-year bachelor students took the Signals & Systems (ISS) exam. Honza promised reference fixes… but seems he delegated them (again!) to his cat Kaja 😼

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On Jan 13, Prachi Singh will give an online talk on Speaker Diarization as part of a Faculty Development Programme by UPES, Dehradun 🇮🇳. The session covers current trends with hands-on insights. See the LinkedIN page for details:
https://t.co/NBkqVoQwRi

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Honza will be speaking at the 2nd MBZUAI Speech & NLP Symposium in Abu Dhabi, organized by Hanan Aldarmaki, Bashar Alhafni, Preslav Nakov and Thamar Solorio from the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.

https://t.co/ntWAnJEab8

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All the best for 2026 from the Brno crew !

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After presenting at USC (thanks Shri Narayanan), Alex Polok & Sathvik Udupa are sharing their ASRU posters in Honolulu on Dec 8. 10:30-12:00 and 14:00-15:30 respectively. Don’t miss them—and Sara Barahona presenting our VoxCeleb work too!

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Hynek Heřmanský received the 2025 Czech AI Award at Vzlet, Prague! Born in Nové Město na Moravě, with a career spanning OGI, JHU and Google, he’s known for RASTA/PLP and early NN advocacy. Congrats to Hynek and thanks to Czech AI Platform & JIC!

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Last week we welcomed Prof. Jan G. Švec for a great talk on how the human voice works—from source-filter basics to advanced biomechanics. Big thanks to FIT BUT’s Students’ Union for the venue and A/V support!
https://t.co/LP8dHJc4vw

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Great news from Phonexia: new growth chapter with Crescendo Equity Partners as 100% owner! Founded in 2006 by 6 Speech@FIT members, Phonexia will see accelerated expansion and R&D investment in speech tech for security/defense and business sectors.

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Lin Zhang, longtime Brno collaborator now at JHU, will present the IEEE SPS talk on partially fake speech on Nov 20, 2025, 9:30 AM ET. Also see her Interspeech paper “PartialEdit.”
https://t.co/HFeNf2aiR5
https://t.co/61ta0tzhVW

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The Czech National AI Platform is a joint initiative of the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
BUT Speech@FIT is proud to be a part of it. We recommend also having a look at the other Czech AI companies and University labs! https://t.co/jqfjaLjTeK

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We're wrapping up the #JSALT2025 workshop this Thu & Fri with team presentations after 8 weeks of work in Brno! Join us in person (D105 @ FIT) or online. Full agenda: https://t.co/bfB9EKnpEU. Don’t miss Sanjeev’s summary Thu morning: “How we got here and what we discovered”!

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Details in https://t.co/vmVnNzlGWB

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Thu July 24 11:00, we will have the last plenary talk of #JSALT2025 - Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying [University of Maryland] will present "Helpful AI Models: You can't always get what you want, but you might get what you need”" You can also watch it on YT: https://t.co/FFE6NCqDGA

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Tue July 22 11:00, we will have another plenary talk of #JSALT2025 - Xavier Serra [UPF Barcelona] will speak about Methodologies for Music Understanding and Generation in the Context of Trustworthy AI. You can also watch it on YT: https://t.co/FFE6NCqDGA

https://t.co/S2CaM0YRC9