Jordi Pons - Audio Engineering Researcher
This was my first Interspeech, and I was interested in understanding the field from the eyes of a “speech researcher” — instead of looking at it from the music/audio perspective, that is my field of expertise. After attending to Interspeech, I realized their sensibility for languages and how diverse is the community. The best of the conference? That one of the longest slides in the world was in town.
Our ISMIR 2019 tutorial on ‘Waveform-based music processing with deep learning’ got accepted! We will teach about music generation (Sander Dieleman), music classification (Jongpil Lee), and music source separation (myself)!
This is the first ICASSP I’m feeling that the conference has become a place where influential machine learning papers are presented. I’m happy to see that most of our community is not only employing ‘LSTMs for a new dataset
This was my second ISMIR, and I am super excited of being part of this amazing, diverse, and so inclusive community. It was fun to keep putting faces (and height, and weight) to these names I respect so much! This ISMIR has been very special for me, because I was returning to the city where I kicked off my academic career (5 years ago I was starting a research internship @ IRCAM!), and we won the best student paper award!
