Creating digital avatars that speak naturally and convincingly in real time remains one of the most complex challenges in artificial intelligence. While Text-to-Speech systems have reached high levels of quality, realistic facial animation, especially accurate lip, jaw and facial expression synchronization is still an open research problem. The challenge becomes even greater in low-resource languages […]
The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) is the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and one of the most prestigious global events in the field of signal processing and artificial intelligence. The 51st edition of ICASSP will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, bringing together […]
SPEAKABLE focuses on three intertwined strands: 1. Efficient Adaptation: Advancing efficient adaptation of Speech LLMs for LR languages through parameter-efficient methods (e.g., adapters, LoRA, prompt/prefix tuning), multilingual transfer and layer selection, knowledge distillation, and streaming or edge-constrained inference. These methods have been shown to significantly reduce the number of trainable parameters while maintaining or improving performance […]
The three-day main conference will take place on 13-15 May 2026, and it will be accompanied by three days of workshops and tutorials to be held in the days immediately before (11-12 May 2026) and after (16 May 2026). The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech […]