Voice Research Club at SF Tech Week (dinner + paper readings: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization & Meta Muse TTS)

Voice Research Club is a Voice Arena initiative in collaboration with the Bay Area Frontier Research Club. Designed by researchers, for researchers, VRC will convene the voice and speech community for recurring, paper-driven technical sessions centered on current work, open problems, and rigorous discussion. VRC is research-first and discussion-led. It is not a demo day, vendor showcase, or pitch event. Researchers from companies, universities, and independent labs are welcome; sales presentations are not. Sessions are shaped by community paper submissions and recommendations, with final selections curated for technical rigor and discussion value. The evening will feature two concise technical presentations followed by an extended research discussion. The talks provide the substrate; the Q&A is the main event. Agenda 5:30pm: Doors open 5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner 6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion 8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking Presenters & topics Talk 1 — Nishant Nikhil - Meta Muse TTS Nishant Nikhil is a Research Engineer at Meta, where he developed the voice technology powering Meta AI and Meta’s wearable devices across 25 languages. Previously, he developed voice-cloning and Text-to-Speech technology at PlayAI, which was acquired by Meta. His talk will explore emergent capabilities in Text-to-Speech systems, and how increasingly capable speech models can exhibit behaviors beyond their original training objectives. X: x.com/nishnik LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nishant-nikhil Talk 2 — Taejin Park - NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization Taejin Park is an engineering manager at NVIDIA, leading the teams behind multi-speaker ASR and speaker diarization — most recently the Nemotron 3 Diarization model. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/taejin-park-099393a3 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZmUDgEMAAAAJ&hl=en Who Should Attend • Speech, audio, and multimodal researchers • Research engineers building TTS, STT,…

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