convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026📢 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 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026📢 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 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026📢 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 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026📢 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 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026📢 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.socialpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026📢 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 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026📢 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 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026📢 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 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026📢 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 ESTpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026📢 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 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026📢 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 ESTpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026📢 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 ESTpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026📢 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/rgyoutube.comConvAI_RGConversational AI Reading Group 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026📢 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.htmlyoutube.comConvAI_RGConversational AI Reading Group 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026🎉 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_RGpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025 📢 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.socialpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025📢 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 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025📢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) 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025📢 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)lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 020
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025📢 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)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025📢 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)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 021
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025📢 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)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025📢 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)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025📢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"poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025📢 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! 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025📢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)lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025If 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.htmlyoutu.beA safety case for the Scientist AI - Yoshua BengioYouTube video by ConvAI_RG 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025This 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.htmlpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 042
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025📢 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)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 010
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025📢 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 020
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025We’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/rgpoonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025📢 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 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 26th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Dinesh Manocha - University of Maryland 📖 Topic: "Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 19th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Yuki Mitsufuji - SonyAI 📖 Topic: "AI for Creators: Pushing Creative Abilities to the Next Level" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025📢 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: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025🚀 If you missed the May 29th session on the landscape of spoken language models by Yossi Adi, the full session is now available on our YouTube channel! 🎥 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/2d1MU280yQk?... 📑 Slides available here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.htmlyoutu.be"On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models" - Yossi Adi.YouTube video by ConvAI_RG 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 29th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Yossi Adi 📖 Topic: "On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 22nd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Hervé Bredin (@hbredin.bsky.social) 📖 Topic: "Speaker diarization, a (love) loss story" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀 011
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 15th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Wen-Chin Huang 📖 Topic: "Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech and Beyond" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 8th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Leda Sari 📖 Topic: "The Voicebox Model and Its Applications" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, May 1st | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Daniel Povey from Xiaomi Corp. 📖 Topic: "CR-CTC: Consistency regularization on CTC for improved speech recognition" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 000
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 24th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Oriol Nieto(urinieto.bsky.social) from Adobe Research 📖 Topic: "GenAI for Sound Design" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 041
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 17th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Titouan Parcollet (@tparcollet.bsky.social) from Samsung AI Center Cambridge 📖 Topic: "Unsupervised on-device adaptation of a speech recogniser and the Pitfalls of "SpeechLLM" evaluation" 022
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 10th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Karen Livescu from TTIC 📖 Topic: "Toward Understanding Sign Language in the Real World" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, April 3rd | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Min Ma from Google DeepMind 📖 Topic: "Improving Multilingual Speech Recognition and Language Identification" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 27 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Xiaoyu Bie (@xiaoyubie.bsky.social ) from Télécom Paris 📖 Topic: "Learning Source Disentanglement in Neural Audio Codec" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 20 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Julian Parker 📖 Topic: "Making transformers work for audio coding" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀 111
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025🚀 If you missed the March 13th session on cutting-edge research in speech dialogue (Moshi) and translation (Hibiki) by Alexandre Défossez( @honualx.bsky.social), the session is now available on our YouTube! 🎥 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/0_c3bw_x6uU?... 📑 Slides here: poonehmousavi.github.io/rgyoutu.be"Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue" - Alexandre DéfossezYouTube video by ConvAI_RG 001
convai-rg.bsky.social @convai-rg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, March 13 | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙Speaker: Alexandre Defossez 📖 Topic: "Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg) ▶️ Missed a session? Watch on YouTube: (www.youtube.com/@CONVAI_RG) 🚀poonehmousavi.github.ioPooneh MousaviHomepage of Pooneh Mousavi 011
