On 12th and 13th of June, the ELOQUENCE consortium convened for its third plenary meeting, hosted by Telefónica Innovación Digital, S.L. in Barcelona, Spain. Partners from across Europe came together to review the progress made across all work packages, align on key priorities for the upcoming months, and engage in technical discussions on advancing trustworthy, […]
For the last 30 years, Each summer, Center for Language and Speech Processing of the Johns Hopkins University (CLSP JHU) organizes and hosts a few international teams for an intensive 6-week research workshop on speech and language engineering, nowadays tightly linked to machine learning, and artificial intelligence (ML/AI). These very successful workshops have had a […]
As AI continues to shape the way we interact with the digital world, the demand for inclusive and diverse language technologies is greater than ever. The Multilingual Speech Language Model Challenge (MLC-SLM), hosted by Nexdata and organized as part of the ICML 2025 Competition Track, addresses this need by encouraging the development of advanced automatic […]
The theme of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2025) is “Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millennium”.It invites us to reflect on how technological advances continue to redefine our interactions with the digital world. Over the last two decades, the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has evolved rapidly, adapting […]
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering - IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025 - will be an international event mainly aimed at creating a synergy between experts in eXtended Reality, Brain-Computer Interface, and Artificial Intelligence, with special attention to the Measurement. The conference will be a unique opportunity for discussion among scientists, technologists, […]
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 […]
The ICML 2026 Workshop on Efficient Multimodal Question Answering (EMM-QA) will take place on 11 July 2026 at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea. The workshop focuses on question answering over multimodal inputs, with a particular emphasis on balancing answer quality and system efficiency in the era of large language models. […]