📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group.e . 📅 Thursday, Nov 13th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Simone Scardapane(@s_scardapane)- Sapienza University of Rome 📖 Topic: "Efficient and resource-constrained dynamic neural networks" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtla7O1)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Nov 6th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Emmanouil Benetos (@emmanouilb) - Queen Mary University of London 📖 Topic: "Machine learning paradigms for music and audio understanding" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtla7O1)

📢 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: ( https://t.co/oxEZtla7O1)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, Oct 23rd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Joan Serrà @serrjoa - Sony AI 📖 Topic: "Supervised contrastive learning from weakly-labeled audio segments for musical version matching" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtla7O1)

📢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. 📅 Thurs Oct 9th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Fabio Antonacci - Politecnico di Milano 📖 Topic: "AI-based Spatial Audio" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/vx8kIRu36u)

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: https://t.co/PwffXDh3VJ 📷 Website:

This Thursday Oct 2nd , our Conversational AI RG is honored to host @Yoshua_Bengio , 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:

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thurs, Sep 25th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Themos Stafylakis @themosst 📖 Topic: "Advances in Speaker Recognition: Pruning, Deepfake Detection, and Learning without Temporal Labels" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtl9zYt)

📢 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:

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:

📢 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: https://t.co/5EOuxyefqs 📺 YouTube:

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 26th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Dinesh Manocha (@dmanocha) - University of Maryland 📖 Topic: "Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtl9zYt)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 19th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Yuki Mitsufuji (@mittu1204) - SonyAI 📖 Topic: "AI for Creators: Pushing Creative Abilities to the Next Level" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtl9zYt)

🚀 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: https://t.co/QogseMhEGH website:

🎵💬 If you are interested in Audio Tokenisers, you should check out our new work! We empirically analysed existing tokenisers from every way - reconstruction, downstream, LMs and more. Grab yourself a ☕/🍺 and sit down for a read!

📢 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: ( https://t.co/oxEZtla7O1)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (@HermanKamper) 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtl9zYt)

📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (@HermanKamper) 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtl9zYt)