<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Dr. Elena Sokolova (Amazon Text-to-Speech Group) will deliver the e – lecture: "How we do research in Speech at Amazon" on <b>7th November 2024, 15:00 CET.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For more details, click </span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/events/how-we-do-research-in-speech-at-amazon/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">here</span></b></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Registration [</span><a href="https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">].</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The </span><a href="http://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)</span></b></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects </span><a href="https://ai4media.eu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">AI4Media</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, </span><a href="https://www.elise-ai.eu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">ELISE</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, </span><a href="https://www.humane-ai.eu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">Humane AI Net</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, </span><a href="https://tailor-network.eu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">TAILOR</span></a><u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, </span></u><a href="https://www.vision4ai.eu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">VISION</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">in the framework of </span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Top highly cited senior AI scientists internationally or</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures)</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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 </span><a href="https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">AIDA email list</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> and </span><a href="https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">CVML email list</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Upcoming AI Excellence Lectures:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Hannes Fassold, Joanneum Research, “Manifold / geometric deep learning and its application for multimedia”, 12/11/24 – 17:00 CET</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, “How to train large scale 3D human foundation models”, 19/11/24 – 17:00 CET</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Associate Prof. Gül Varol, “Text-driven 3D human motion synthesis”, 26/11/24 – 17:00 CET</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prof. Sean Gong, “LLMs for More Reliable Small Data Learning”, 3/12/24 – 17:00 CET</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best regards<br>Profs. N. Sebe, M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, J. Stefanowski<br>AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series committee members</span></p></div>