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📢 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

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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 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

📢 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 : 🎙 Speaker: Samuele Cornell @SamueleCornell - 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 @dilekhakkanitur ▶️ YouTube channel: @CONVAI_RG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">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: @CONVAI_RG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">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 ▶️ @CONVAI_RG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG

📢 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: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.html

📢 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"

📢 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: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)

📢 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: (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 - 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