EVENT    SANE 2019 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast

Date released: October 24, 2019

  •  EVENT    SANE 2019 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast
  • Date:

    Thursday, October 24, 2019

  • Location:

    Columbia University, New York, NY

  • Description:

    SANE 2019, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the Northeast of the American continent, was held on Thursday October 24, 2019 at Columbia University, in New York City.

    It was the 8th edition in the SANE series of workshops, which started in 2012 and has been held every year alternately in Boston and New York. Since the first edition, the audience has steadily grown, with a previous record of 180 participants in 2017 and 2018, and a new record of 200 participants and 45 posters in 2019.

    This year's SANE conveniently took place in conjunction both with the WASPAA workshop, held October 20-23 in upstate New York, and with the DCASE workshop, held October 25-26 in Brooklyn, NY, for a full week of speech and audio enlightenment and delight.

    SANE 2019 featured invited talks by seven leading researchers from the Northeast as well as from the international community: Brian Kingsbury (IBM TJ Watson Research Center), Kristen Grauman (University of Texas at Austin, Facebook AI Research), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg), Karen Livescu (TTI-Chicago), Gabriel Synnaeve (Facebook AI Research), Hirokazu Kameoka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories), Ron Weiss (Google Brain). It also featured live demonstrations by Jonathan Le Roux (MERL) and Andrew Titus (Apple), and a lively poster session with 45 posters in Columbia University's Low Memorial Library, a National Historic Landmark.

    SANE 2019 was co-organized by Jonathan Le Roux (MERL), Nima Mesgarani (Columbia), John R. Hershey (Google), Shinji Watanabe (Johns Hopkins), and Steven J. Rennie (Pryon Inc.). SANE remained a free event thanks to generous sponsorship by Columbia University, MERL, Google, Apple, and Amazon.

    Slides and videos of the talks are available from the SANE workshop website.

  • MERL Contact:

    Jonathan Le Roux

  • External Link:

    https://saneworkshop.org/sane2019/

  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech & Audio