It's that time of the year! 🎁 The Apple Machine Learning Research (MLR) team in Paris is hiring a few interns, to do cool research for ±6 months 🚀🚀 & work towards publications/OSS. Check requirements and apply: ➡️ jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... More❓→ ✉️ [email protected]

New preprint! 
In this work led by María Andrea Cruz Blandón during her internship at Apple, and with the help of Jie Chi and Zakaria Aldeneh, we show that visual grounding helps reduce the multilingual gap present in self-supervised speech models. arxiv.org/abs/2509.17523

🎙️Slides from our @interspeech.bsky.social tutorial “Speech Technology Meets Early Language Acquisition” (with Emmanuel Dupoux & Okko Räsänen) are now online: zenodo.org/records/1701... We hope they’re useful for anyone interested in connecting speech tech and early language learning!

In Vienna for ACL 2025! 🇦🇹 Come chat about speech, multilinguality, and cognitive modelling : I’ll be at the Apple booth Tuesday 1:30–3:30. #ACL2025NLP

Now that @interspeech.bsky.social registration is open, time for some shameless promo! Sign-up and join our Interspeech tutorial: Speech Technology Meets Early Language Acquisition: How Interdisciplinary Efforts Benefit Both Fields. 🗣️👶 www.interspeech2025.org/tutorials ⬇️ (1/2)

New preprint out! 👇 We adapt the ABX task, commonly used in speech models, to investigate how multilingual text models represent form (language) vs content (meaning). 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17747 🙌 With Jie Chi, Skyler Seto, @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social, Masha Fedzechkina & Natalie Schluter

New paper out in Cognition! 🎉 This one actually includes some of my (very) early work: my first-ever research project as an undergrad psychology student, now a decade ago. Nice to see it finally in print! 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

🎉 Super happy to announce that a significant part of Marvin Lavechin's and my PhD research on modelling early language acquisition has finally been published in Developmental Science! 📄 doi.org/10.1111/desc... (OS version : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...) 🧵1/7

Amazing opportunity for researchers with cognitive/psychology/linguistics (or related) backgrounds! There is an open position to work as an AIML resident with Apple MLR in Copenhagen, with the great @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social. Details (topic + deadline) in the 🐦 thread: x.com/maartjeterho...

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I've started putting together a starter pack with people working on Speech Technology and Speech Science: go.bsky.app/BQ7mbkA (Self-)nominations welcome!