Our pick of the week by @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: "How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs?" by Kelly Marchisio, Saurabh Dash, @hongyuchen.bsky.social, Dennis Aumiller, Ahmet Üstün, @sarahooker.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social (EMNLP 2024 Findings) aclanthology.org/2024.finding...

Our pick of the week by @apierg.bsky.social: "Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference Benchmark for Gender-Fair German Machine Translation" by Praval, @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social, @gattanasio.cc, and @a-lauscher.bsky.social (EMNLP 2025 Findings)

Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics" by @victor-rosi.bsky.social and Carolyn McGettigan, Royal Society Open Science (2025)

Last week at the @fbk-mt.bsky.social seminars, we hosted Elizabeth Salesky from Google DeepMind, presenting her work on "Translation and Language Modeling with Pixels" #NLProc #tokenization #MT

Our #PickOfTheWeek by @beomseok-lee.bsky.social: "Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?" by Yi-Jen Shih, @rdesh26.bsky.social, Chunyang Wu, Wei Zhou, SK Bong, Yashesh Gaur, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli, Mike Seltzer (2025). #Speech #SpeechLLM #LLM #SpeechTech #AI

🎉🎓Congratulations to our PhD student @dennisfucci.bsky.social on a very successful thesis defense! 👏 Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @deboranozza.bsky.social, Mirco Ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work! #nlproc

Extra shout-out to the battle-hardened crew joining for this round 🔥 @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social

🚀 We're hiring a Researcher in Responsible & Trustworthy NLP! Join our research group @fbk-mt.bsky.social at Fondazione Bruno Kessler to work on fairness and trustworthiness in multilingual technologies. 📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025 🔗 Apply: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

🚀 JOB ALERT2: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring! Join us as a Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal LLMs and help build next-gen AI across text, speech, and video. If you’re passionate about deep learning and multimodal NLP, we want to hear from you! Apply at jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...

Happy to welcome our new PhD student Dhairya Suman, who will be researching model efficiency in machine translation! #nlproc @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social

🚀 JOB ALERT 3: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring! Join us as a Researcher in Responsible & Trustworthy NLP and advance ethical, fair, and transparent language technologies. If you care about building safe and accountable AI systems, you can apply here: 👉 jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

🚀 JOB ALERT: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring! Join us as a Researcher in Multimodal LLMs and work at the forefront of AI, combining text, speech, and video. If you’re passionate about deep learning and next-gen models, we want to hear from you! Apply 👉 jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...

🚀 Exciting news from the @fbk-mt.bsky.social group! @bsavoldi.bsky.social , @linaconti.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social & @luisabentivogli.bsky.social are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou 🇨🇳! Come to our sessions & let's connect: 🔗 mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-em... We’re also hiring postdocs!⚡

It was great having Hosein Mohebbi (@hmohebbi.bsky.social) speak about interpretability for speech Transformers at our #MTSeminars! Thanks for the insights 🎤 #NLP #XAI

Amazing job @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @chiaramanna.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social @evavnmssnhv.bsky.social! You made also this third edition of @gitt-workshop.bsky.social energizing (despite the heat 🫠) and inspiring! I really wish I could have been there with you 😍

Paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11934

Poster session now happening at #GITT2025 Some really exciting research and potluck discussions happening! 🔥

If you'd like to read more, check out the paper at www.cell.com/patterns/ful... by @bsavoldi.bsky.social @jasmijn.bastings.me @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @evavnmssnhv.bsky.social #GITT2025

@bsavoldi.bsky.social opening #GITT2025 nice turnout already! First up: SOTA to get everyone up to speed again! 🚀

🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio! 👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai... (è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏) Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!

Co-authored with: @mgaido91.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @mcettolo.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social

Big thanks to amazing co-authors: @mgaido91.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, @andre-t-martins.bsky.social, @gattanasio.cc!

🎉 Excited to share that our @sarapapi.bsky.social has won the 2024 Best PhD Award from the Information and Engineering Doctoral School for her thesis “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: The Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios.” #nlproc #speech #speechprocessing #speechtranslation

📢 One week left to apply for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in our group! 📔Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📌Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📆 Deadline: 12 May 2025, 4pm CEST #NLProc #FBK

📢 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

Happy to announce that our paper 'An LLM-as-a-judge Approach for Scalable Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation' was accepted at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social ! 🙌 Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11934 🔥 Co-authors (🫶🏻): @bsavoldi.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social

@alessiobrutti.bsky.social is on the red carpet on his way to the Assembly of Members of the Alliance for Language Technology #ALTEDIC and the kick off of the LLMs4EU project: towards preserving our cultural and language diversity and giving european citizens open and ethical #languagetechnologies

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...

Our pick of the week by @sarapapi.bsky.social: "Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction" by StepFun (2025). #speech #speechtech #audio

Our pick of the week by @mgaido91.bsky.social: "AlignFormer: Modality Matching Can Achieve Better Zero-shot Instruction-Following Speech-LLM" by Ruchao Fan, Bo Ren, Yuxuan Hu, Rui Zhao, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li (2024). #NLProc #Speech #instructionfollowing #zeroshot #speechtech #speechllm

Hello world! 👋 We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news: 1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there! 2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "When End-to-End is Overkill: Rethinking Cascaded Speech-to-Text Translation" by Anna Min, et al, 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2502.00377

Great interest for our poster at the AISV 2025 conference! 🚀 Our PhD student @dennisfucci.bsky.social is presenting his research on relevant frequency patterns in vowel detection for automatic speech recognition.

Discussione molto interessante al workshop AISV 2025 sulle nuove tecnologie ASR. Il nostro gruppo ha presentato assieme a @speechtekfbk.bsky.social l'attività in corso per la creazione di un modello fondazionale open-source del parlato per italiano e inglese. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/i4x7w8f...

As if you needed more reasons to submit to #GITT2025: 🔑🎵 Cristina Anselmi, video game #localization & #AI expert with a focus on #inclusive #language will be our keynote speaker! 💸Registration fees are on the MTSummit website and you can register just for GITT if you so choose 😎 👀 See you there! 👀

Next up: simultaneous speech translation! 🎯 Goal: to explore ways to translate speech into another language like simultaneous interpreting. 🔗 Link: iwslt.org/2025/simulta...

Today's task is an IWSLT mainstay: Offline ST! 🎯 Goal – Provide a stable & shared evaluation framework to track advances in Spoken Language Translation from English into multiple languages & domains. 🌍🎙️ #AI #SpeechTech #SpeechTranslation #IWSLT2025

Our last task: Subtitling!! 🎯 Goal: The IWSLT 2025 Subtitling Track challenges participants to generate accurate Arabic & German subtitles for English audiovisual recordings, bridging language gaps in media! 🌍📺 #AI #SpeechTech #Subtitling #IWSLT2025 🔗: iwslt.org/2025/subtitl...

First up, a new task for 2025: *Instruction-following for speech processing!* Explore instruction-following for speech ⇨ Integrate speech foundation models with LLMs across tasks such as speech translation, recognition, summarization, and QA. 🔗: iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

Today's task: model compression!! 🆕 New at IWSLT! But no less exciting 🔥 🎯 Goal: Compress a large, general-purpose multimodal model, making speech translation more efficient ⚡️, deployable 📲, and sustainable ♻️, while preserving translation quality ⭐️ #AI #SpeechTech #ModelCompression #LLMcompression

2nd Call For Papers #CFP up on our website! sites.google.com/tilburgunive... ⏳Deadline = 10 March 📝All the submission types you could wish for (research paper, extended abstract, research communications) AND MORE: 🍀 Potluck Presentations for new ideas, brainstorms, and explorations 💡 We can't wait!

Exciting news: IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 again this year! 🎉 Interested in speech processing? Check out the new task on instruction following — any model can participate! 🚀 📅 Data release: April 1 ⏳ Submission deadline: April 15 💬 iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

🙌🏼 Excited to share our work on Speech Foundation Model for data crowdsourcing at COLING 2025 🙌🏼 Our co-author Laurent Besacier (@lbesacier.bsky.social) at NAVER LABS Europe will be presenting -- don't miss it. 👉🏼 Details: mt.fbk.eu/1-paper-acce...

We are very pleased to welcome @zhihangxie.bsky.social, our new PhD student, to the FBK MT Unit! 🎉