To keep up-to-date with the latest on audio-technology for our software development, we follow other researchers studies and we usually visit many conferences. Sadly, this time, we cannot attend them in person. Nevertheless, we can visit them virtually, together with you. Here is what we think are the most relevant upcoming audio-related conferences:

• ICASSP (https://2020.ieeeicassp.org/)
• EUSIPCO (https://eusipco2020.org/)
• INTERSPEECH (http://www.interspeech2020.org/)

Let’s take a more detailed look at,

ICASSP 2020 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Date: 04th – 8th of May, 2020
Location: https://2020.ieeeicassp.org/program/schedule/live-schedule/

This is a list of panels we recommend during the ICASSP 2020:

Date: Tuesday 05th of May 2020

• Opening Ceremony (9:30 – 10:00h)
• Plenary by Yoshua Bengio on “Deep Representation Learning” (15:00 – 16:00h)
  • Note: may be pretty technical, for deep learning enthusiastic
  • Note: He’s one of the fathers of deep learning

Date: Wednesday 06th of May 2020

• Show and Tell 5 (16:30 – 18:30h)
  • Interesting: Real-Time Voice Conversion
    
  • Interesting: Video-driven Speech Reconstruction

Date: Thursday 07th of May 2020

• Image/Video Synthesis, Rendering and Visualization (08:00 – 10:00h)
  • Interesting: End-to-End Generation of Talking Faces from Noisy Speech
• Machine Learning for Speech Synthesis (11:45 – 13:45h)
  • Interesting: Boffin TTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation by Bayesian Optimization – A.K.A.: a quite obscure title corresponding to “learn to synthesize a voice using 5-10 minutes of training content”
• Voice Conversion (15:15 – 17:15h)
  • Interesting: End-to-End Voice Conversion via Cross-model Knowledge Distillation for Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction – A.K.A.: deepfake a voice of someone who cannot articulate sounds anymore (parkinson, ALS, brain injuries etc.)

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

The Digger project aims:

• to develop a video and audio verification toolkit, helping journalists and other investigators to analyse audiovisual content, in order to be able to detect video manipulations using a variety of tools and techniques.
• to develop a community of people from different backgrounds interested in the use of video and audio forensics for the detection of deepfake content.