🏆 It's a pleasure to announce the winner of the Dolby Barcelona Scientific Paper Award 2025: Guillem Cortès Sebastià for PeakNetFP, a scalable neural audio fingerprinting system robust to extreme time stretching.

Details: professional.dolby.com/legal/barcel...

Coming from a physics background and being familiar with research methodology in fields like neuroscience, I'm struck by the lack of statistical practices in ML/AI papers. Most papers fail at basic statistical analysis that would be expected in other scientific fields. 🧵

At @waspaa.com in Lake Tahoe 🏔️ — great talks, great atmosphere, and maybe a bear or two 🐻.

Happy to present today our work on generative AI for RIR!

Dolby Barcelona Scientific Paper Award 2025 - deadline extended to 30th September due to ICASSP paper submission overlap.

Final call!

Details: professional.dolby.com/legal/barcelona-scientific-paper-award-2025/

Just 11 days left until the Sept 15 deadline and we've already received some excellent submissions.

Still working on yours? Don't wait: showcase your 2024-2025 sound research now.

New paper!
We're introducing a new way to generate realistic room impulse responses not from room geometry, but by directly controlling acoustic parameters like reverb time and direct-to-reverb ratio.

🔗 Demo: silviaarellanogarcia.github.io/rir-acoustic/
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12136

New paper!
We're introducing a new way to generate realistic room impulse responses not from room geometry, but by directly controlling acoustic parameters like reverb time and direct-to-reverb ratio.

🔗 Demo: silviaarellanogarcia.github.io/rir-acoustic/
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12136

I'm happy to share that in the Dolby office in Barcelona we are offering an award for outstanding scientific papers in sound research. Open to students and early-career researchers with connections to Catalonia.

Deadline 15th September.

professional.dolby.com/legal/barcel...

I'm happy to share that in the Dolby office in Barcelona we are offering an award for outstanding scientific papers in sound research. Open to students and early-career researchers with connections to Catalonia.

Deadline 15th September.

professional.dolby.com/legal/barcel...

Anthropic deserves credit for its serious commitment to LLM safety — but where are similar efforts from other big tech players like Google or OpenAI?

🔗 www.anthropic.com/news/activat...

Just dropped our new paper on arXiv (accepted for Interspeech 2025)

Mateusz Guzik (while interning at Dolby) developed together with us a cool deep learning approach that fixes spatial aliasing in beamforming.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.19781

Updated my lecture notes in Ambisonics — now available on Zenodo. They started as course material but have helped quite a few people beyond that. Not a textbook, just some pretty basic lecutre notes. Feedback welcome!
zenodo.org/records/1546...

Are you a PhD student specializing in audio or AI? Interested in an internship with us in Barcelona? Apply here!

We've had the pleasure of working with talented interns in the past, and the experience has been mutually very rewarding.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

Are you a PhD student specializing in audio or AI? Interested in an internship with us in Barcelona? Apply here!

We've had the pleasure of working with talented interns in the past, and the experience has been mutually very rewarding.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding.

(E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?)

Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

I initiated a starter pack for Audio ML. Let me know if you'd like to be added/removed.
go.bsky.app/LGmct4z

My first post in Bluesky!

This is my new Bluesky feed where I intent to discuss things about physics, deep learning & AI, audio, research, technology and society, mostly in English.