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BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thu July 24 11:00, we will have the last plenary talk of #JSALT2025 - Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying [University of Maryland] will present "Helpful AI Models: You can't always get what you want, but you might get what you need”" You can also watch it on YT: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Jul 22

Tue July 22 11:00, we will have another plenary talk of #JSALT2025 - Xavier Serra [UPF Barcelona] will speak about Methodologies for Music Understanding and Generation in the Context of Trustworthy AI. You can also watch it on YT: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/plenary-lect...

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today, July 18, at 11:00, Herve Bredin [pyannoteAI, France] will give the 5th Plenary talk at the JSALT workshop "Speaker diarization, a love loss story", see jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/plenary-lect... for details.

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Jul 1

📢 Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz) gives the 2nd #JSALT plenary tomorrow, Tue July 1, 11:00 in Room E112: "Cross-layer models for conversational speech recognition in low-resourced scenarios". Join in person or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎤📺
jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/plenary-lect...

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · May 28

Honza is giving a lecture at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, MFF) today. If you want to attend, note that it takes place in the new buildings of MFF in Troja, not the historical one in Mala Strana.
www.mff.cuni.cz/en/research-...

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · May 19

We have great pleasure to invite you to a talk of an excellent Czech scientist, Professor at #EPFL, Lenka Zdeborová. We have never seen a talk treating machine learning as a problem of statistical physics! Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 13:00 in lecture room E112 and online www.youtube.com/live/FCvPhHm...

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · May 9

Several speech students participated at the FIT Conference of innovations, technology and science - Excel@FIT. Congratulations to Sathvik, Dominik, and Ondrej for winning Excel prizes!
excel.fit.vutbr.cz/vysledky/

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations to Lin Zhang for her new post-doc position at CLSP at Johns Hopkins University! She is working on anti-spoofing and anonymization with Nicholas Andrews and Matthew Wiesner. She also collaborates closely with Sanjeev Khudanpur, Leibny Paola García-Perera, and Kevin Duh.

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · May 9

Over the weekend we to plan for the upcoming #JSALT25 workshop for the topic "Advancing Expert-Level Reasoning and Understanding in Large Audio Language Models". Two days of intense brain storming 🧠 and planning powered by extra portions of coffee ☕️.
jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/summer-works...

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 25

Glad to announce another married man in the group - Pradyoth's wedding with Sameeksha took place in Mangalore on Thu 3rd April (before ICASSP) in presence of 3.5k guests! All the best!

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 25

And after ICASSP, Johan. Lukas, Alex, Martas and Santosh even made it to the local newspapers after their visit to the Ramappa Temple UNESCO heritage site!

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 25

The networking activities around ICASSP continued after Meeami: on Monday 7 April, Honza took part in an official visit to IIIT Hyderabad, met its director and spent nice time with Anil Kumar Vuppala and his colleagues and students in Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC).

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BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 7

A lot of interesting discussions happened during and after the presentations, and also during the amazing lunch at ITC Peshawar. We thank Meeami for hosting us.

BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 7

Santosh presented the team's work on Aligning foundation models for (1) speech to text translation (2) dialogue state tracking from speech.

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BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 7

Alex presented the team's work on (1) Target speaker ASR with Whisper, (2) Robust ASR via internal language model regularisation, (3) Speech foundation models for European languages using open and legally accessible datasets.

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BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 7

The Speech@FIT research group continues its industry collaboration at global scale, with Santosh and Alex recently visiting Meeami Technologies in Hyderabad.

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BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 2

Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning for Speaker Diarization, by Jiangyu Han et al. ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp....
utilizes SSL models to alleviate the problem of data scarcity for neural speaker diarization.
Apr 9: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Lecture, Room: MRG.04, Johan Rohdin

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BUT Speech @butspeech.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our papers to be presented at ICASSP in Hyderabad!

Target Speaker ASR with Whisper, ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/108...
Introduces a novel approach to training target-speaker ASR systems utilizing frame-level diarization outputs.
Apr 11: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Poster 2E, presented by Alexander Polok

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Feb 26

Yesterday, we hosted folks from @butspeech.bsky.social, Phonexia, Phrase, and MAMA AI at the first meeting of the Linguistics, AI, Speech, and Language Technologies project, which is funded by @msmtcr and the EU's Programme Johannes Amos Comenius.