---
title: "Can Your Agent Hear You Now?"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "3:20pm-3:40pm"
track: "Expo Stage 3"
room: "Expo Stage 1 NE"
speakers: ["Thor 雷神 Schaeff"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Expo Stage 3"
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 1 NE"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 3", "Expo Stage 1 NE", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Can Your Agent Hear You Now?

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 3:20pm-3:40pm
- Track/room: Expo Stage 3 · Expo Stage 1 NE
- Speaker(s): Thor 雷神 Schaeff
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Expo Stage 3
- Room: Expo Stage 1 NE
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
No official description published in the schedule data.

## Media Evidence
[From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6Ojl2XS1w) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-dense-slides|Dense Slides: From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMind]] — 1 visible slide image(s); 1 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/dense-slides/Bc6Ojl2XS1w/slide-001.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-slides|Slides: From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMind]], [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMind]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w`: engineering, future.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w` — 1 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w`: engineering, future.
- Evidence links for `youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w`: [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w]], [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-slides]], [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-dense-slides]], [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[thor-schaeff]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-dense-slides]] (1 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-dense-slides]]
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-reconstructed-slides]]
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-slides]]
- Slide-derived terms: `audio`, `engineer`, `engineering`, `future`, `deepmind`, `gemini`, `performance`, `google`, `thor`, `transcription`, `english`, `transcript`, `prompt`, `speaker`, `context`, `segment`, `following`, `europe`

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Can Your Agent Hear You Now? ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 3:20pm-3:40pm - Track/room: Expo Stage 3 · Expo Stage 1 NE - Speaker(s): Thor 雷神 Schaeff - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Expo Stage 3 - Room: Expo Stage 1 NE - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description No official description published in the schedule data. ## Media Evidence [From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6Ojl2XS1w) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w` - Slide deck: [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-dense-slides|Dense Slides: From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMind]] — 1 visible slide image(s); 1 HTML recreation(s).

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[thor-schaeff|Thor 雷神 Schaeff]] — Member of the Technical Staff (DevX) at Google DeepMind at [[google-deepmind|Google DeepMind]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-Bc6Ojl2XS1w-dense-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.