Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by Dingdong Wang, Junan Li, Mingyu Cui, et al. (#EMNLP2025) aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... #SLU #SpeechTech

🚀 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!⚡

🎉🎓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

@bsavoldi.bsky.social from @fbk-mt.bsky.social will present Translation in the Hands of Many: Centering Lay Users in Machine Translation Interactions at the poster session on Wed Nov. 5th, 11:00-12:30 in Hall C

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

Our next presentation is by @sarapapi.bsky.social: "How real is your real-time simultaneous speech-to-text translation system?" Look for the answer in her TACL paper: direct.mit.edu/tacl/article... #lt2025fbk

Our Marco Gaido presenting FAMA, the first family of large-scale open-science speech foundation models for English and Italian. Joint work with the @speechtekfbk.bsky.social group. Data, code, models publicly available, check all info in the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u... #lt2025fbk

@bsavoldi.bsky.social presenting our new multilingual benchmark for evaluating LLMs on gender-neutral translation. Catch our paper at #EMNLP2025 ℹ️ arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09409 #lt2025fbk

Now it's the turn of our @dennisfucci.bsky.social presenting the #ACL2025NLP paper on explaining gender bias in speech translation 📖 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #lt2025fbk

The Language Technology at FBK workshop has just started with a truly insightful talk by @deboranozza.bsky.social: "A Roadmap for the Everyday Use of LLMs: Emerging Risks and Research Directions" #LT2025FBK

Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "Lost in Transcription, Found in Distribution Shift: Demystifying Hallucination in Speech Foundation Models" by Hanin Atwany, @abdulwaheed.bsky.social, Rita Singh, Monojit Choudhury, and Bhiksha Raj (ACL Findings 2025) aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

🚀 Join us for the LT@FBK day 2025! Discover cutting-edge research and highlights in speech and language technologies from Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) 📅 October 28, 2025 📍FBK, Trento ℹ️ lt-highlights.fbk.eu

Our pick of the week by @bsavoldi.bsky.social: "Acoustic-based Gender Differentiation in Speech-aware Language Models" by Junhyuk Choi, Jihwan Seol, Nayeon Kim, Chanhee Cho, EunBin Cho, Bugeun Kim. arxiv.org/abs/2509.21125 #Gender #SpeechLLM #Speech

🚀 Our annual, full-day Language Technologies showcase is back! Dive into the latest research highlights from FBK groups. Want in? We'd love to see you, but don't forget to register! www.fbk.eu/en/event/346...

Marco Gaido introducing SimulStream, an #OpenSource Tool for Simultaneous #Speech #Translation 🗣️🖥️📝 at the DI Center Demo Day at FBK! The tool is going to be released soon. Stay tuned! 👀

Marco Gaido and Roldano Cattoni presenting our SimulStream Demo at the DI Center Demo Day at FBK! The open-source tool, which is going to be released soon, natively supports any speech-to-text #HuggingFace models! 🤖 #SpeechTech #Translation

🎉 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...

Our very own @sarapapi.bsky.social presenting FAMA at #clicit2025: 📗Paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u... 🔗 Models: hf.co/collections/... 📊 Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK... 💻 Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-f... Joint work with @speechtekfbk.bsky.social

🚀 Excited to present FAMA, the first large-scale #OpenScience #Speech foundation model for 🇮🇹 Italian & 🇬🇧 English, at #clicit2025 (17:30–18:45 oral session)! 🔗 Models: hf.co/collections/... 📊 Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK... 💻 Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-f... 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22759

We are on our way to Casteddu for #clicit2025 with a guest from @fbk-mt.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

Our pick of the week by @sarapapi.bsky.social: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey" by Penghao Zhao, Hailin Zhang, Qinhan Yu, Zhengren Wang, Yunteng Geng, Fangcheng Fu, Ling Yang, Wentao Zhang, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19473 #RAG #survey

Our pick of the week by Marco Gaido: "Context-Driven Dynamic #Pruning for Large #Speech #Foundation Models" by Masao Someki, Shikhar Bharadwaj, Atharva Anand Joshi, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Jinchuan Tian, Jee-weon Jung, @shinjiw.bsky.social, et al. #INTERSPEECH2025. arxiv.org/abs/2505.18860

Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "SimulMEGA: MoE Routers are Advanced Policy Makers for Simultaneous Speech Translation" by Chenyang Le, Bing Han, Jinshun Li, Songyong Chen, and Yanmin Qian (2025) #Speech #Simultaneous #Translation #MOE #SpeechTech

Our pick of the week by @beomseok-lee.bsky.social: "Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in SpeechLLMs" by Dingdong Wang, Junan Li, Mingyu Cui, Dongchao Yang, Xueyuan Chen, and Helen Meng (EMNLP 2025)

Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Rhyme: Uncovering Internal Phonetic Representations in LLaMA 3.2" @jackmerullo.bsky.social, Arjun Khurana, Oliver McLaughlin (ICML 2025 Workshop on Assessing World Models) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02527 #XAI #LLM

Heading home after an exciting and intense @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna! We had a great time presenting our work and connecting with the community. Thanks to everyone who came by! #acl2025 #nlproc (1/6)

Before presenting our speech model compression task at IWSLT, our pick of the week by Marco Gaido: WhisperKit arxiv.org/abs/2507.10860 by Atila Orhon, Arda Okan, Berkin Durmus, Zach Nagengast and @eduardo-pacheco.bsky.social (ICML 2025)—an early attempt to bring large-scale models to edge devices

Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "Adversarial Speech-Text Pre-Training for Speech Translation" by Chenxuan Liu, Liping Chen, Weitai Zhang, Xiaoxi Li, Peiwang Tang, Mingjia Yu, Sreyan Ghosh, and Zhongyi Ye (ICASSP 2025)

Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social 🔎: "PHRASED: Phrase Dictionary Biasing for Speech Translation" by Peidong Wang, Jian Xue, Rui Zhao, Junkun Chen, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Jinyu Li arxiv.org/abs/2506.09175 #speech #AI #ST #NLP

@bsavoldi.bsky.social taking us back in time at #GITT2025 ⌚⏳ focusing on the first discussions of gender bias in language technology as a socio-technical issue. No, the problem hasn't been fixed yet. But what has happened?

Last but definitely not least: @bsavoldi.bsky.social presenting joint work with @apierg.bsky.social @matteo-negri.bsky.social @luisabentivogli.bsky.social on scalable gender neutral translation evaluation using LLM-as-a-judge at #GITT2025

Our pick of the week by @dennisfucci.bsky.social: "Speech Representation Analysis Based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities" by @yelkheir.bsky.social, @ratedali.bsky.social, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury (ICASSP Workshops 2024)

Our pick of the week by @beomseok-lee.bsky.social: "ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs" by Pooneh Mousavi, Yingzhi Wang, Mirco Ravanelli, and Cem Subakan (2025) arxiv.org/abs/2505.19937 #SLU #speech #multimodal #LLM

Our pick of the week by @apierg.bsky.social: "Agree to Disagree? A Meta-Evaluation of LLM Misgendering" by Arjun Subramonian, @dippedrusk.com, Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang, and Yizhou Sun #LLM #NLProc #fairness

🔍 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!

🚀 New tech report out! Meet FAMA, our open-science speech foundation model family for both ASR and ST in 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian. The models are live and ready to try on @hf.co: 🔗 huggingface.co/collections/... 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22759 #ASR #ST #OpenScience #MultilingualAI

Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social : "Languages in Multilingual Speech Foundation Models Align Both Phonetically and Semantically", by ‪@soheunshim.bsky.social, Domenico De Cristofaro, Chengzhi Martin Hu, ‪@alessandrovietti.bsky.social, @barbaraplank.bsky.social #AI #XAI #speech #nlproc

Our pick of the week by @bsavoldi.bsky.social: "Lost in Translation: Artificial Intelligence and the Demand for Foreign Language Skills" by @pmllanos.bsky.social and @carlbfrey.bsky.social (2025) oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications... #AI #translation #MT

So happy our paper “Different Speech Translation Models Encode and Translate Speaker Gender Differently” was accepted at #ACL2025 (main)! 🎉 The preprint will be out soon! #SpeechTranslation #GenderBias #Interpretability @aclmeeting.bsky.social

🎉 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

💭Dreaming of attending #GITT2025 but need a little extra 💸 boost? 📣 Bursary applications to support participation are now open at tinyurl.com/gitt25 📆 Deadline May 9th 🙏Thanks to our incredible sponsors DCA at Tilburg University tinyurl.com/tudca25 and FLW at Ghent University www.ugent.be/lw/en

📢 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

Our pick of the week by @mgaido91.bsky.social: "OpenOmni: Advancing Open-Source Omnimodal Large Language Models with Progressive Multimodal Alignment and Real-Time Self-Aware Emotional Speech Synthesis" by Luo et al. (2025) #SpeechProcessing #LLM #SFM #NLProc #speechtech #audio

🗓️ Deadline update 🗓️ To accommodate requests, we have extended the test period for *all tasks* until *April 19th.* System description papers are now due *April 24th.* Thank you and good luck to all participants!!

Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "Bridging Speech and Text Foundation Models with ReShape Attention" by Takatomo Kano, @wanchichen.bsky.social, @shinjiw.bsky.social, et al. #ICASSP2025 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/108... #FoundationModel #SpeechProcessing

The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks! The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! ⏰ Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳

Our pick of the week by @beomseok-lee.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, and Jinyu Li (2024). #speech #LLM #speechlmm #zeroshot #instructionfollowing

📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at @iwslt.bsky.social just started! 🖥️ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system! The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project (www.meetween.eu)! ➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl