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May 14
It will be our last meeting of our Conversational AI RG for Sprig 2026.
May 14
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π The Grand Design Challenge of Music GenAI.
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Thursday, May 14 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Nicholas J. Bryan - Adobe Research
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May 14
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π The Grand Design Challenge of Music GenAI.
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Thursday, May 14 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Nicholas J. Bryan - Adobe Research
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Apr 29
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Large Audio-Language Models: Algorithms and Applications.
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Thursday, April 30 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Wenwu Wang - University of Surrey
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Apr 21
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Improving spoken language identification for non-native speech.
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Thursday, April 23 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Tanel AlumΓ€e (@TanelAlumae) - Tallinn University of Technology
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Apr 15
π’ π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Toward Trustworthy Voice Agents: Speech-Native Evaluation, Safety, and Security.
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Thursday, April 16 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Amir Ivry - Technion, incoming CMU
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Apr 7
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Faithful and Grounded Audio Language Models.
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Thursday, April 9 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Cem Subakan(@CemSubakan) - Mila
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Mar 31
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Voice-Based Psychiatric Assessment in the Real World and the Case for Production-Aligned Speech Frontends.
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Thursday, Apr 2 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π George Fairs & Stefano Goria - thymia
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Mar 24
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Speaker: Jonathan Le Roux(@JonathanLeRoux) - MERL
π Prompt-Conditioned Unified Audio Modeling: From Source Separation to Source-Aware Codecs.
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Thursday, March 26 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
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Mar 17
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Speaker: Andros Tjandra & Bowen Shi - FAIR (Meta AI)
π SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio.
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Thursday, March 19 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
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Mar 10
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Speaker: Ricard Marxer( @ricardmp) - UniversitΓ© de Toulon, ILLS, CNRS
π Advancing the Linguistic Capabilities of Speech Language Models.
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Thursday, March 12 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
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Mar 4
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, Weβre happy to welcome :
π Speaker: Yiwen Shao - Tencent AI Lab
π Auden: From audio encoders to Large Audio Language Model.
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Thursday, March 5 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.hβ¦
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Feb 24
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group:
Weβre happy to welcome :
π Speaker: Samuele Cornell @SamueleCornell - Carnegie Mellon University
π Conversational Speech Processing: Challenges & Opportunities
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Thursday, Feb 26 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
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Feb 17
π’ This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group:
Weβre happy to welcome :
π Speaker: Tiago H. Falk - INRS
π Amplitude Modulation Spectral Analysis: From Conventional Audio Feature Engineering to Speech Foundation Models
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Thursday, Feb 19 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
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Feb 10
π’ This week's Talk:
π Towards Accountable Conversational Agents for Task Completion
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Thursday, Feb 12 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: Dilek Hakkani-TΓΌr - UIUC @dilekhakkanitur
βΆοΈ YouTube channel: youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG
π Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg
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Feb 3
π’ This weekβs talk:
π Model-based audio deep learning with application to source separation and dereverberation
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Thursday, Feb 5 | 11:00 AM β 12:00 PM EST
π Speaker: GaΓ«l Richard βTΓ©lΓ©com Paris)
βΆοΈ YouTube channel: youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG
π Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.hβ¦
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Jan 27
π ConvAI Reading Group is back for 2026!
This week we welcome Daniel P. W. Ellis (Google DeepMind) presenting his ICML paper:
π§ Recomposer: Event-roll-guided Audio Editing
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Thu, Jan 29 | 11 AM EST
π poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.hβ¦
βΆοΈ youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG
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16 Dec 2025
π’ Join the final Conversational AI Reading Group meeting of 2025!
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Thursday, Dec 18th | 11 AM - 12 EST
π Speaker: Daniel D'souza (@mrdanieldsouza) - @cohere Labs
π Topic: "Data as Leverage: Improving Foundation Models Beyond Scaling."
π Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.hβ¦
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8 Dec 2025
π’ Join our Conversational AI Reading Group!
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Thursday, Dec 11th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
π Speaker: Tatiana Likhomanenko - Apple
π Topic: "Low-latency Conversational Agent."
π Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.hβ¦
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24 Nov 2025
π’This week, our Conversational AI Reading Group is excited to have Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave from Universidad de Antioquia.
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Thursday, Nov 27th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
π Topic: "Multimodal analysis of Parkinsonβs disease symptoms"
π Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
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17 Nov 2025
π’ Join our Conversational AI Reading Group!
β οΈPlease note this talk starts at 10:00 AM (EST) as an exception.
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Thursday, Nov 20th | 10 AM - 11AM EST
π Speaker: Marc Delcroix - NTT Communication Science Laboratories
π Topic: "Neural Target Speech and Sound Extraction"
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