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It will be our last meeting of our Conversational AI RG for Sprig 2026.

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :

📖 The Grand Design Challenge of Music GenAI.

📅 Thursday, May 14 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

🎙 Speaker: Nicholas J. Bryan - Adobe Research

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📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :

📖 The Grand Design Challenge of Music GenAI.

📅 Thursday, May 14 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

🎙 Speaker: Nicholas J. Bryan - Adobe Research

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
📖 Large Audio-Language Models: Algorithms and Applications.

📅 Thursday, April 30 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

🎙 Speaker: Wenwu Wang - University of Surrey

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
📖 Improving spoken language identification for non-native speech.
📅 Thursday, April 23 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Tanel Alumäe (@TanelAlumae) - Tallinn University of Technology

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :

📖 Toward Trustworthy Voice Agents: Speech-Native Evaluation, Safety, and Security.

📅 Thursday, April 16 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

🎙 Speaker: Amir Ivry - Technion, incoming CMU

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
📖 Faithful and Grounded Audio Language Models.
📅 Thursday, April 9 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Cem Subakan(@CemSubakan) - Mila
@Mila_Quebec

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
📖 Voice-Based Psychiatric Assessment in the Real World and the Case for Production-Aligned Speech Frontends.
📅 Thursday, Apr 2 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 George Fairs & Stefano Goria - thymia

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
🎙 Speaker: Jonathan Le Roux(@JonathanLeRoux) - MERL
📖 Prompt-Conditioned Unified Audio Modeling: From Source Separation to Source-Aware Codecs.
📅 Thursday, March 26 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
🎙 Speaker: Andros Tjandra & Bowen Shi - FAIR (Meta AI)
📖 SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio.
📅 Thursday, March 19 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
🎙 Speaker: Ricard Marxer( @ricardmp) - Université de Toulon, ILLS, CNRS
📖 Advancing the Linguistic Capabilities of Speech Language Models.
📅 Thursday, March 12 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

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📢 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: https://t.co/YTSOEfmuak

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group:

We’re happy to welcome :

🎙 Speaker: Samuele Cornell @SamueleCornell - Carnegie Mellon University

📖 Conversational Speech Processing: Challenges & Opportunities

📅 Thursday, Feb 26 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 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

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢 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 @dilekhakkanitur
▶️ YouTube channel: https://t.co/60UDd9I0ZS
🔗 Details: https://t.co/5EOuxyefqs

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📢 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: https://t.co/60UDd9I0ZS
🔗 Details: https://t.co/YTSOEflWkM

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🎉 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
🔗 https://t.co/YTSOEfmuak
▶️ https://t.co/60UDd9IyPq

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📢 Join the final Conversational AI Reading Group meeting of 2025!
📅 Thursday, Dec 18th | 11 AM - 12 EST
🎙 Speaker: Daniel D'souza (@mrdanieldsouza) - @cohere Labs
📖 Topic: "Data as Leverage: Improving Foundation Models Beyond Scaling."
🔗 Details: https://t.co/YTSOEfmuak

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📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group!

📅 Thursday, Dec 11th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Tatiana Likhomanenko - Apple
📖 Topic: "Low-latency Conversational Agent."
🔗 Details: https://t.co/YTSOEfmuak

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢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: (https://t.co/5EOuxyeNg0)

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📢 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"