Speech & Interactive AI Laboratory

News

[Jun 2026] Congratulations!🎉 SIA Lab has been selected for the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program and has received 4 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q Workstation Edition GPUs. 

[Jun 2026] Congratulations!🎉 Two of our papers have been accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026, one as a Regular Paper and one as a Long Paper. 

[Apr 2026] Congratulations!🎉 One of our papers has been accepted as an ACL 2026 Main Paper. 

[Mar 2026] SIA Lab opens at University of Seoul. Prof. Heeseung Kim joins the Department of Artificial Intelligence as an Assistant Professor.

About

At SIA Lab, we explore how AI can communicate with humans in the most natural way: through speech. Our core research focuses on speech-based AI that can listen, understand, and speak in real-time, just like humans do in everyday conversations. 

Starting from speech, we are expanding into broader modalities including audio, video, and text to build AI that can fully perceive and engage with the world. Our long-term vision is to create intelligent agents that can perceive, reason, and act autonomously and proactively alongside humans in everyday life.