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📢 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)
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November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📢 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)
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November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
📢 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)
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October 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
📢 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)
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October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢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"
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October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📢 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)
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October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
📢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)
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October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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
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September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📢 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)
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September 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢 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
September 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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
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September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
📢 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
June 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📢 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)
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June 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📢 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)
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June 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢 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)
June 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📢 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)
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June 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚀 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.html
"On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models" - Yossi Adi.
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May 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
📢 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)
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May 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
📢 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)
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May 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📢 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)
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May 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📢 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) 🚀
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May 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
📢 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)
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April 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
📢 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)
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April 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
📢 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"
April 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM