While platforms like Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet have expanded online communication, they still have room for improvement in areas such as multilingual interaction and personalized engagement. The international Meetween project, supported by the European Union, aims to overcome the limitations in these areas with artificial intelligence-supported approaches. The system developed within the scope of the project not only translates conversations into different languages in real time; It also redefines the online meeting experience by integrating lip-syncing into translation, speech synthesis that preserves the original voice character, avatars representing the user, and facial anonymization technologies.

Erdi Sarıtaş, a research assistant at Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Department, joined this advanced technology ecosystem through the research group led by his advisor Prof. Dr. Hazım Kemal Ekenel. Sarıtaş, who started to take part in the project at an early stage, had the opportunity to closely observe and develop in areas such as digital privacy, artificial intelligence-based representation and multi-mode human-computer interaction. As part of his work on the project, support was provided to Sarıtaş for the presentation of academic outputs at the FG SD-FGA workshop and EAI ROSENET conference held in 2024. In line with the goals of the Meetween project, it continues to advance its work in this field.



The "Meetween: My Personal AI Mediator for Virtual Meetings" project aims to make digital collaborations in Europe more streamlined and accessible. Virtual agents (Agentar and Butler) equipped with artificial intelligence will make it possible for users to make presentations without attending the meeting, speak in another language with their unique voice, and anonymize their identity if they wish. This system, which can be applied in many areas such as education, marketing, retail and entertainment sectors, is designed to be both sensitive to participant privacy and to strengthen multilingual collaborations.

All outputs of the Meetween project, funded by HORIZON Europe and planned to run until 2027, will be shared as open source, from data sets to algorithms. Thus, while contributing to the European-based ethical artificial intelligence vision, next-generation video conferencing technologies will be accessible on a global scale.

While platforms like Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet have expanded online communication, they still have room for improvement in areas such as multilingual interaction and personalized engagement. The international Meetween project, supported by the European Union, aims to overcome the limitations in these areas with artificial intelligence-supported approaches. The system developed within the scope of the project not only translates conversations into different languages in real time; It also redefines the online meeting experience by integrating lip-syncing into translation, speech synthesis that preserves the original voice character, avatars representing the user, and facial anonymization technologies.

Erdi Sarıtaş, a research assistant at Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Department, joined this advanced technology ecosystem through the research group led by his advisor Prof. Dr. Hazım Kemal Ekenel. Sarıtaş, who started to take part in the project at an early stage, had the opportunity to closely observe and develop in areas such as digital privacy, artificial intelligence-based representation and multi-mode human-computer interaction. As part of his work on the project, support was provided to Sarıtaş for the presentation of academic outputs at the FG SD-FGA workshop and EAI ROSENET conference held in 2024. In line with the goals of the Meetween project, it continues to advance its work in this field.



The "Meetween: My Personal AI Mediator for Virtual Meetings" project aims to make digital collaborations in Europe more streamlined and accessible. Virtual agents (Agentar and Butler) equipped with artificial intelligence will make it possible for users to make presentations without attending the meeting, speak in another language with their unique voice, and anonymize their identity if they wish. This system, which can be applied in many areas such as education, marketing, retail and entertainment sectors, is designed to be both sensitive to participant privacy and to strengthen multilingual collaborations.

All outputs of the Meetween project, funded by HORIZON Europe and planned to run until 2027, will be shared as open source, from data sets to algorithms. Thus, while contributing to the European-based ethical artificial intelligence vision, next-generation video conferencing technologies will be accessible on a global scale.

While platforms like Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet have expanded online communication, they still have room for improvement in areas such as multilingual interaction and personalized engagement. The international Meetween project, supported by the European Union, aims to overcome the limitations in these areas with artificial intelligence-supported approaches. The system developed within the scope of the project not only translates conversations into different languages in real time; It also redefines the online meeting experience by integrating lip-syncing into translation, speech synthesis that preserves the original voice character, avatars representing the user, and facial anonymization technologies.

Erdi Sarıtaş, a research assistant at Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Department, joined this advanced technology ecosystem through the research group led by his advisor Prof. Dr. Hazım Kemal Ekenel. Sarıtaş, who started to take part in the project at an early stage, had the opportunity to closely observe and develop in areas such as digital privacy, artificial intelligence-based representation and multi-mode human-computer interaction. As part of his work on the project, support was provided to Sarıtaş for the presentation of academic outputs at the FG SD-FGA workshop and EAI ROSENET conference held in 2024. In line with the goals of the Meetween project, it continues to advance its work in this field.



The "Meetween: My Personal AI Mediator for Virtual Meetings" project aims to make digital collaborations in Europe more streamlined and accessible. Virtual agents (Agentar and Butler) equipped with artificial intelligence will make it possible for users to make presentations without attending the meeting, speak in another language with their unique voice, and anonymize their identity if they wish. This system, which can be applied in many areas such as education, marketing, retail and entertainment sectors, is designed to be both sensitive to participant privacy and to strengthen multilingual collaborations.

All outputs of the Meetween project, funded by HORIZON Europe and planned to run until 2027, will be shared as open source, from data sets to algorithms. Thus, while contributing to the European-based ethical artificial intelligence vision, next-generation video conferencing technologies will be accessible on a global scale.