Priberam ML Lunch Seminars 2026 – 3rd Session – Ben Peters (INESC-ID)

[Gonçalo Correia]

Dear all,

The Priberam ML Lunch Seminars are back for a third session!

For those who missed the second one by Jean Alves, you can catch up by watching the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkAMLUOy6AY 

Our next talk is scheduled for Tuesday, March 24th at 1 PM at Instituto Superior Técnico (Anfiteatro PA2). As always, lunch bags will be provided!

This time, we are hosting a presentation by Ben Peters, Postdoctoral Researcher at INESC-ID, working at the intersection of NLP and speech. Ben will talk about discrete speech tokenization, a surprisingly effective technique to adapt text language models to speech, and explore the nature of the units it produces: how, when, and why discrete speech tokens work.

To learn more about the event and to register (mandatory if you'd like to attend in-person), please follow the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/whats-in-a-speech-token-tickets-1984898169858 

If you'd prefer to join remotely, you can do so via Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81793392272 

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Kind regards,

Gonçalo