📢 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.bsky.social ) - Tallinn University of Technology
📢 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
📢 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 - Mila
🔗 Details: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html
@mila-quebec.bsky.social
📢 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, April 2 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: George Fairs & Stefano Goria - thymia
📢 This week at our Conversational AI Reading Group, We’re happy to welcome :
🎙 Speaker: Jonathan Le Roux ( @jonathanleroux.bsky.social .bsky.social ) - MERL
📖 Prompt-Conditioned Unified Audio Modeling: From Source Separation to Source-Aware Codecs.
📅 Thursday, March 26 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
📢 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
📢 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