Join the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) on Friday, July 24, for a special talk by Shobhit Banga, co-founder of Josh Talks and CEO of VoiceArena, on the evolving challenges of evaluating today’s advanced voice AI systems. In his presentation, “Large Scale Human Evaluations – Rethinking Evaluations for Today’s Voice Models,” Banga will explore why […]
As the summer workshop enters its collaborative research phase, participants are advancing new approaches to multimodal learning, spoken conversational AI, and uncertainty-aware health technologies. After completing an intensive two-week summer school, participants in the 12th Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology (JSALT 2026) have transitioned into six weeks of collaborative research aimed at […]
The CLSP will welcome Shyam Gollakota, Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, for the next installment of the Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology (JSALT 2026), hosted by the CLSP. Gollakota’s lecture, “Super-human and Proactive Audio AI Systems,” will […]
The internationally-recognized summer workshop brings researchers and students together to discuss challenges in multimodal AI, conversational systems, and health technology More than 50 researchers and students from around the world will gather at Johns Hopkins University from June 15 to August 7 for eight weeks of collaborative research in speech, language, and artificial intelligence. Participants […]
Rapid advances are being made in conversational artificial intelligence, including systems that support so called full-duplex spoken interactions, i.e. permitting users to speak naturally, interrupt system responses, and signal engagement via back-channels, as they would do with a human interlocuter. However, methodologies and benchmarks for evaluating such systems are not keeping pace: a major challenge […]
Vishal Patel, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been promoted to the rank of IEEE Fellow, one of the highest honors from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, starting January 1, 2026. Patel was recognized for contributions to image processing, computer vision, and biometrics. IEEE […]
Tom Lippincott, associate research professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from Schmidt Sciences. The program is supporting 23 teams worldwide that are developing new ways to connect artificial intelligence with humanistic research. Lippincott’s work focuses on how machine learning can support and […]
