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Zakaria Aldeneh

Apple speech researcher, co-author of dMel speech tokenization

EngineeringiOSmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • dMel: Speech Tokenization Made Simple
  • Learning Spatially-Aware Language and Audio Embeddings (NeurIPS)
  • Multilingual self-supervised speech research (ICASSP 2026)

Apple

Machine Learning Researcher · current

Why

Why we celebrate them.

Zakaria's dMel work showed that a simple, honest representation can beat elaborate speech tokenizers, a result that helps every speech-language model that follows. His spatial audio embeddings research points at genuinely new listening experiences.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • dMel paper
  • Google Scholar
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