Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "Greater accessibility can amplify discrimination in generative AI" Gender bias in speech-based LLMs examined from multiple angles: a user survey, automatic bias measurement, and pitch manipulation experiments. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.22260

⏰ 4 days left to apply! 🎓 2 PhD positions still open: 🎯 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies ✨ Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Full details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

@linaconti.bsky.social & @luisabentivogli.bsky.social are heading to #LREC2026 in Palma! They'll present two papers: 📄 Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation 📄 Phonetic-based Ranking for Improved Pseudo-Labelling in Low-Resource ASR See you there! 🌴

🎓 Come and join our group! 🎓 We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions: 🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6) 🤖 Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7) ⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

🎓 Today we attended the FBK PhD Day, and our amazing students presented their research lines: @apierg.bsky.social: gender-inclusive MT @linaconti.bsky.social: explainable speech translation @zhihangxie.bsky.social: long-form SpeechLLMs @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: resource-efficient translation

💬 Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics." A great review of gender-diverse voices. Covers acoustic properties, perception and the gap between self-expression of gender and how voices are heard. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

🎙️ Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "Lost in Transcription, Found in Distribution Shift" Traditional WER masks dangerous hallucinations in ASR systems. This paper proposes a dedicated metric to detect them. aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

🎉 Excited to share that my paper "The Unheard Alternative" was accepted to @blackboxnlp.bsky.social 2025! We introduce contrastive explanations for speech-to-text, identifying which audio features ST models use to assign a grammatical gender to the speaker. 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.265...

Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Rhyme" 👄 a dive into how LLaMA develops internal phonetic representations despite never hearing speech. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02527 #XAI #LLM #interpretability

Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social : arxiv.org/abs/2505.19606 by @cislmu.bsky.social @barbaraplank.bsky.social. XAI work on cross-lingual alignment in speech-to-text models that disentangles phonetics and semantics. Plus: their XAI insights yield actionable improvements for low-resource languages.

📢 Come and join our group! We offer a fully funded 3-year PhD position: 📔 Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📍Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📅 Deadline May 12, 2025 #NLProc #FBK

My pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "MuPe Life Stories Dataset" introduces a spontaneous speech corpus that captures Brazilian diversity—across education levels, regional accents & age groups aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...

While we look forward to a sunny Geneva, why wait to join the conversation? We’ve created a starter pack for our #GITT2025 friends! 🕵️ Follow researchers working on gender bias in MT 💬 Stay up to date and dive into the discussion! All info at sites.google.com/tilburgunive...