Publications

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  • Sep 30, 2025|ICML

    LLARK : A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music

    Joshua Gardner, Simon Durand, Daniel Stoller, Rachel Bittner

  • Aug 19, 2025|SSW

    Scaling Transformer-based Text-to-Speech with Knowledge Distillation

    Erik Henriksson, Tom Merritt, Rasmus Dall, Felix Vaughan, Veronica Morfi

  • Jul 8, 2025|ECIR

    Contextualizing Spotify’s Audiobook List Recommendations with Descriptive Shelves

    Gustavo Penha, Alice Wang, Martin Achenbach, Kristen Sheets, Sahitya Mantravadi, Remi Galvez, Nico Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Divya Narayanan, Ofeliya Kalaydzhyan, and Hugues Bouchard

  • Apr 29, 2025|2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)

    Classification Of Spontaneous And Scripted Speech For Multilingual Audio

    Shahar Elisha, Andrew McDowell, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz, Emmanouil Benetos

  • Oct 22, 2024|CIKM

    PODTILE: Facilitating Podcast Episode Browsing with Auto-generated Chapters

    A. Ghazimatin, E. Garmash, G. Penha, K. Sheets, M. Achenbach, O. Semerci, R. Galvez, M. Tannenberg, S. Mantravadi, D. Narayanan, O. Kalaydzhyan, D. Cole, B. Carterette, A. Clifton, P. N. Bennett, C. Hauff, M. Lalmas-Roelleke

  • Sep 20, 2023|CLEF

    Cem Mil Podcasts: A Spoken Portuguese Document Corpus For Multi-modal, Multi-lingual and Multi-Dialect Information Access Research

    Ekaterina Garmash, Edgar Tanaka, Ann Clifton, Joana Correia, Sharmistha Jat, Winstead Zhu, Rosie Jones, Jussi Karlgren

  • Aug 15, 2023|Interspeech

    Lightweight and Efficient Spoken Language Identification of Long-form Audio

    Winstead Zhu, Md Iftekhar Tanveer, Yang Janet Liu, Seye Ojumu, Rosie Jones

  • May 3, 2023|TheWebConf

    Improving Content Retrievability in Search with Controllable Query Generation

    Gustavo Penha, Enrico Palumbo, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, and Hugues Bouchard

  • Sep 20, 2022|Interspeech

    Unsupervised Speaker Diarization that is Agnostic to Language Overlap Aware and Free of Tuning

    M Iftekhar Tanveer, Diego Casabuena, Jussi Karlgren, Rosie Jones

  • Sep 20, 2022|Interspeech

    Exploring audio-based stylistic variation in podcasts

    Katariina Martikainen, Jussi Karlgren, Khiet Truong

  • Jul 12, 2022|SIGIR

    What Makes a Good Podcast Summary?

    Rezvaneh Rezapour, Sravana Reddy, Ann Clifton, Rosie Jones

  • Jun 7, 2022|ICWSM

    The Contribution of Lyrics and Acoustics to Collaborative Understanding of Mood

    Shahrzad Nazeri, Sravana Reddy, Joana Correia, Jussi Karlgren, Rosie Jones

  • Nov 1, 2021|CIKM

    Leveraging Semantic Information to Facilitate the Discovery of Underserved Podcasts

    Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, Aasish Pappu, Hugues Bouchard,Yu Zhao, Benjamin Carterette and Mounia Lalmas

  • Jul 26, 2021|ACL

    Modeling Language Usage and Listener Engagement in Podcasts

    Sravana Reddy, Mariya Lazarova, Yongze Yu, Rosie Jones

  • Apr 19, 2021|EACL

    Detecting Extraneous Content in Podcasts

    Sravana Reddy, Yongze Yu, Aasish Pappu, Aswin Sivaraman, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Rosie Jones

  • Dec 9, 2020|COLING

    100,000 Podcasts: A Spoken English Document Corpus

    Ann Clifton, Sravana Reddy, Yongze Yu, Aasish Pappu, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Hamed Bonab, Maria Eskevich, Gareth Jones, Jussi Karlgren, Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones

  • Oct 11, 2020|ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

    "Play Music": User Motivations and Expectations for Non-specific Voice Queries

    Jennifer Thom, Angela Nazarian, Ruth Brillman, Henriette Cramer, Sarah Mennicken

  • Jan 1, 2019|IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

    An Introduction to Signal Processing for Singing-Voice Analysis: High Notes in the Effort to Automate the Understanding of Vocals in Music

    Eric J. Humphrey, Sravana Reddy, Prem Seetharaman, Aparna Kumar, Rachel M. Bittner, Andrew Demetriou, Sankalp Gulati, Andreas Jansson, Tristan Jehan, Bernhard Lehner, Anna Krupse, Luwei Yang

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