Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Brno 2025

Jelinek
Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology (JSALT) 2025

June 9 -
August 1, 2025

Faculty of
Information Technology, Brno University of Technology

In the summer
of 2025, the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, in cooperation with Phonexia, with the support of OP JAK and under the patronage of the City of Brno and the South Moravian Region, will host the prestigious
international event Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language
Technology (JSALT). The event is regularly organized by Johns Hopkins University
(Maryland, USA), and this year in cooperation with the European ESPERANTO
project.

Thanks to this event, FIT BUT and Brno in general will
become, for two months, a global center of research in speech technologies and
language modeling.

The program
is divided into two parts:

The Summer School (June 9-20) offers intensive education in
speech and language technologies through morning lectures (open to the general public and available as YouTube video lectures) held in lecture
hall E112 and afternoon labs.

The Research Workshop (June 23 -
August 1) brings
together more than 100 researchers from around the world. Over the course
of six weeks, they will work in four selected teams on current challenges
in the field. The research teams are defined by their respective target
topics. For this year's 32nd edition of JSALT, the topics are:

• Play your Part: Towards LLM
  role-playing agents that stick to their roleAdvancing
• Expert-Level Reasoning
  and Understanding in Large Audio Language Models
• End to End multi channel multi
  talker ASR, EMMA
• TTS4ALL: TTS in low resource
  scenarios: data management, methodology, models, evaluation