Tootfinder

Since when did autumn become dangerous?
Anyway, one of a myriad reasons I don’t log into LinkedIn (except, apparently, to self-promote, which is the whole reason it exists).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116590848112694824
I’ll throw a “strong agree” behind this one. Give us:
⁃ scholars
⁃ writers, musicians, artists
⁃ scientists
⁃ people whose own thoughts, creativity, and hard work have made something that makes the world better (and no, this does not include CEOs)

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Avex Music Group plans a $100M fund to acquire music copyrights, companies, and publishing catalogs over the next 12 months (Elizabeth Dilts Marshall/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/avex-music-group-launches-100-million-catalog-fund/

Avex Music Group Launches $100 Million Publishing Catalog Fund
Avex Music Group announced the launch of a $100 Million publishing catalog fund and acquired the catalog of Teddy Swims collaborator Infamous.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Knats:
🎵 Azure Blues (6 Music Session, 19 May 2026)
#Knats
https://knats.bandcamp.com/track/azure-blues-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/21E19rcwx9hzj74iqozk9L

Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche agrees to acquire US-based PathAI, which makes AI diagnostic tools, for up to $1.05B, with $750M upfront, closing in H2 2026 (AdriŠ Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Replaced article(s) found for eess.AS. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.AS/new
[1/1]:
- Unifying Diarization, Separation, and ASR with Multi-Speaker Encoder
Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, Yifan Peng, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20474 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/115110974009150613
- CALM: Joint Contextual Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling for Personalization of Multi-Speaker ASR
Muhammad Shakeel, Yosuke Fukumoto, Chikara Maeda, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22792 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116000207024295325
- How Much Does Machine Identity Matter in Anomalous Sound Detection at Test Time?
Kevin Wilkinghoff, Keisuke Imoto, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16253 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116096185732811365
- LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classific...
Niloofar Jazaeri, Hilmi R. Dajani, Marco Janeczek, Martin Bouchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116169771215037748
- Adapting a Text-to-Audio Model for Room Impulse Response Generation
Kirak Kim, Sungyoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116209762413602825
- Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Training-Free Music Style Transfer on Mel-spectrograms
Heehwan Wang, Joonwoo Kwon, Sooyoung Kim, Jungwoo Seo, Shinjae Yoo, Yuewei Lin, Jiook Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15913 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/113548024475383386
- DeePen: Penetration Testing for Audio Deepfake Detection
M\"uller, Kawa, Stan, Doan, Jung, Choong, Sperl, B\"ottinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20427 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114097333876265997
- Re-evaluating Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Automatic Speech Recognition
Yuu Jinnai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19471 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115422969877240889
- Aliasing-Free Neural Audio Synthesis
Yicheng Gu, Junan Zhang, Chaoren Wang, Jerry Li, Zhizheng Wu, Lauri Juvela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20211 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115773521971327576
- TiCo: Time-Controllable Spoken Dialogue Model
Kai-Wei Chang, Wei-Chih Chen, En-Pei Hu, Hung-yi Lee, James Glass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22267 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283643505371784
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Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Recognition Music Group, which includes works of Justin Bieber and Neil Young, from Blackstone for between $3.5B and $4B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-0…

Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.