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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We're thrilled to welcome Steven VanRoekel as ESP's new CEO 🚀 Steve brings leadership across public, private, and nonprofit sectors, along with and a deep belief that AI-driven breakthroughs in animal communication can transform how we relate to our planet. 🔗 www.earthspecies.org/blog/introdu...

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Headed to @interspeech.bsky.social next week to present the Samsung AI Cambridge Speech Team work—if you see someone in a SpeechBrain or Samsung AI hoodie, that’s me. Come say hello!

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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"

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Rogier van Dalen @rogiercvd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Your streaming speech recognizer is probably mathematically flawed, degrading its accuracy. Ask me to explain how to fix this next week in the Thursday morning poster session at #ICASSP, or look at ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

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Globally Normalizing the Transducer for Streaming Speech Recognition

The Transducer (e.g. RNN-Transducer or Conformer-Transducer) generates an output label sequence as it traverses the input sequence. It is straightforward to use in streaming mode, where it generates p...

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I agree however that for many other fields where the salary is equivalent or slightly below the private sector, then, well it remains an excellent professional situation

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Older French academics are great, in domains with high salary differences (like mine, CS), the level of hired people is plummeting. Even major institutions are struggling to find good candidates. Some jobs are now not even being filled due to the lack of applicants.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

French salaries aren’t just lower, they’re a joke. Definitely not at a level that the UK should aim for 🙂

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Most PhD in CS are not actually PhD. We should really start splitting things properly with those seeking excellence in engineering and those seeking excellence in science. Less useless publications, clearer path towards hiring.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

As a French, I do not understand how the US aren’t in a revolution. Macron can only dream of the situation, as we would burn the country for 1/5 of what Musk is doing right now. If Musk and Trump get away with this, it will be an insane signal for our EU governments. Don’t let this happen folks.

situation.as

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Well, pour la diarization, y’a pas mieux. Pour la partie Whisper, en revanche, vaut mieux être une entreprise sans trop de scrupules, puisque les données d’apprentissage de ce modèle ont été volé.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Repeat after me: “AI will not save us from the major moral and environmental issues that we are facing”.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

110B invested in France for AI. I really wish that we stop burning our cash like that on AI and, instead, focus on truly important issues like health or energy…

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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Congratulations to NatureLM-audio authors David Robinson, Marius Miron, @mhagiwara.bsky.social, and Olivier Pietquin on this huge accomplishment. We're looking forward to presenting at #ICLR2025 in April.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I had this discussion with mine. He ended up sending me to a dad school.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

They've been burning the world done for many generations already. This new gen of "bros" known as "Tech bros" are just more visible than our usual oil/mining/pharma/agri bros. And by the way, the problem does not come from "bros" but from the power you can get from having absurd amounts of money.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

AI == magic. We have no idea how to cut spendings without affecting quality, AI will do it, no worries

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

@ovhcloudfr.bsky.social vous n’auriez pas une instance de stockage optimisée à prêter au projet open source @speechbrain.bsky.social pour la préparation / release d’un dataset sur @hf.co de reconnaissance de la parole de 25.000 heures?

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

That’s crazy. This morning I woke up in my rented mid-40’s red bricks house and I was like, yup, it’s definitely getting colder outside. This is something that never happened to me in France 🇬🇧

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It looks like there isn’t a single “rich” country where the politics and the economy aren’t moving forward in favor of the rich and against the people with more and more violence. It seriously looks like the agony of an old system, and privileged people just don’t want to accept it.

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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The silence around Long Covid is deafening because speaking up requires - Fighting waves of misinformation to understand your condition - Accepting an incurable illness as your new reality - Risking relationships, income & facing stigma, all for little hope of support. Most simply suffer quietly.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Please conferences… don’t ban papers from being published on Arxiv before submission… as long as arxiv exists, this is a terrible idea!

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The worst thing that can happen to a research field is to attract too many investors and too much media coverage - rip AI.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Pretty sure that it is no better in the industry.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This. We must fund research on long-covid / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. People with these diseases are properly invisible, because they cannot be physically visible anywhere.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Now transparency would at least give us real numbers instead of estimate, which is of scientific interest (or just depressing, like most things in AI right now). I totally agree on the accountability part, but this should be true for all industries. So many are more polluting than AI... :'(

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

If we want to act on this, we need to go for a much more generic framework not only targeting AI, but everything. The root cause is energy consumption vs societal/commercial value. In the EU we have so much "transparency", yet companies are yolloing everything.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As long as consuming energy is not something that falls under legal scrutiny, transparency will be meaningless. And no, civil society will not magically become aware of the problem and fight for it. Many industries are polluting, we know it, and yet we don't care.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Transparency isn’t sufficient in most cases. In the EU, legal concepts to force companies to not harm people exist. Yet, it does not prevent them from doing it. What we need is a proper legal framework describing disproportionate energy consumption as a crime. Then we will be able to act.

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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today, we’re introducing NatureLM-audio: the first large audio-language model tailored for understanding animal sounds. arxiv.org/abs/2411.07186 🧵👇

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I just discovered Earth Species Project. That’s a freakin good way of applying AI for the greater good. No AGI bullshit, no social harm, just knowledge and collaboration with nature.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The UK could do this, and you wouldn’t even notice it. As a foreigner, I don’t even understand what benefit you are talking about - and to be honest, I’m pretty convinced that you have no idea what you are talking about either. just like if illegal migrants are currently occupying 1M houses…

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Yes. 100%. If you work in a place not providing you at least half of the points in that list, and if you are able to, change, and quickly, you only have one life.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

People who say that the private sector is much more efficient money-wise than the public sector have either never worked in a medium—to large company or startup or have never been employed full-time as a public servant.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This piece of shit is the biggest shame of our field. I don’t understand how any university can allow this.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Was this before or after the massively racist slide?

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Massive work. Now my take: if you need to do such a thing for a conference that ends up being a random process anyway, it means that it is time to re-think it entirely. NeurIPS, ICLR and the like are an excellent peak at how terrible this field has become. Mass production of mostly shit science.

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NeurIPS 2024 Experiment on Improving the Paper-Reviewer Assignment – NeurIPS Blog

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It’s so obvious that players like Apple / Google / Samsung should focus a serious amount of R&D into wearable health … i somehow am trying to make my way to this topic but it’s not as simple as “hey, let’s do some GenAI” 🫥

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

About to drop a 25,000 hours dataset for English ASR with allowed commercial use and both clean / noisy and read / spontaneous speech. It will also contain a 2.5k hours subset and validation / test sets. Hopefully on @speechbrain.bsky.social :)

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The gooooooooooooooooonk!!!!!!! Yes. Purrfection.

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Titouan "SpeechBrain" Parcollet @tparcollet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Depending on where you live, the 10% isn’t even sufficient to get a luxury house :p I’ve been in the top 2% for 2 years and I still can’t afford a mortgage for a 3beds from 1940 with a backyard… Luxury houses are more for the .1% imho.

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