Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast,

Dr. Elena Sokolova (Amazon Text-to-Speech Group) will deliver the e – lecture: "How we do research in Speech at Amazon" on *7th November 2024, 15:00 CET.*

In this talk we will present how Speech technology has developed in the past 20 years. We will take a dive deep into the research that we do at Amazon in our Text-to-Speech lab, describe the challenges that we face and how we solve them at scale. We will also give an overview of the internship opportunities we have in our department for those of you who want to join our team in 2025.

- For more details, click *here* https://www.i-aida.org/events/how-we-do-research-in-speech-at-amazon/ - Registration [here https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea].

The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)* http://www.i-aida.org/, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media https://ai4media.eu/, ELISE https://www.elise-ai.eu/, Humane AI Net https://www.humane-ai.eu/, TAILOR https://tailor-network.eu/*, *VISION https://www.vision4ai.eu/, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures

in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/ on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by:

- Top highly cited senior AI scientists internationally or - Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures)

These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida and CVML email list https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml.

Upcoming AI Excellence Lectures:

- Dr. Hannes Fassold, Joanneum Research, “Manifold / geometric deep learning and its application for multimedia”, 12/11/24 – 17:00 CET - Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, “How to train large scale 3D human foundation models”, 19/11/24 – 17:00 CET - Associate Prof. Gül Varol, “Text-driven 3D human motion synthesis”, 26/11/24 – 17:00 CET - Prof. Sean Gong, “LLMs for More Reliable Small Data Learning”, 3/12/24 – 17:00 CET

Best regards Profs. N. Sebe, M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, J. Stefanowski AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series committee members