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The 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science was hosted by the Trinity College Dublin on the 6th and 7th of December in the Long Room Hub<\/a>. The conference covered an interesting variety of topics across computer science, psychology and neuroscience. This led to interesting presentations including one asking the question whether Amazon’s Alexa suffers from Alexithymia?<\/p>\n

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\"\"QxLab was well represented with two papers: Rahul, who is funded by a scholarship from the SFI CONNECT<\/a> research centre for future networks, presented his work on voice over IP quality monitoring with a presentation entitled: “The Sound of Silence: How Traditional and Deep Learning Based Voice Activity Detection Influences Speech Quality Monitoring”. In his paper<\/a> he investigated how different voice activity detection strategies can influence the outputs from a speech quality prediction model. \u00a0In his experiment used a dataset<\/a> with labelled subjective quality judgments.<\/p>\n

\"\"Alessandro also had a paper<\/a> in the proceeding and gave an interesting talk\u00a0on exploring a DNN-based fusion for speech separation. Alessandro’s PhD is funded by the SFI Insight<\/a> Centre for data analytics.
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