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

Our pick of the week by @apierg.bsky.social: "Adding Chocolate to Mint: Mitigating Metric Interference in Machine Translation" by José Pombal, @nunonmg.bsky.social, Ricardo Rei, and @andre-t-martins.bsky.social (2025). #mt #translation #metric #machinetranslation

Sharing the red carpet with @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @fbk-mt.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

Our pick of the week by @dennisfucci.bsky.social: "Speech Is More than Words: Do Speech-to-Text Translation Systems Leverage Prosody?" by @ytsiamas.bsky.social, Matthias Sperber, Andrew Finch, and Sarthak Garg (WMT, 2024). #speech #translation #WMT #NLProc #prosody

Had a great time visiting @milanlp.bsky.social last week and sharing some of my latest work on #XAI in #SpeechTranslation! Thanks for having me! 😊

Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "MuPe Life Stories Dataset: Spontaneous Speech in Brazilian Portuguese with a Case Study Evaluation on ASR Bias against Speakers Groups and Topic Modeling" by Evaldo Leal et al., #COLING2025 #speech #bias #brazilian #portuguese #NLProc

⏳Just a little more time? We got you! 📣 #GITT2025 DEADLINE EXTENSION until 16 March (AOE 🌏) 📍 Join us 23 June at the @mtsummit2025.bsky.social in Geneva 📝Attend GITT as an independent workshop, or register for the full MT Summit 💡 All info at sites.google.com/tilburgunive... 👀 See you there?

Our pick of the week by @bsavoldi.bsky.social: "How Culture Shapes What People Want From AI" by Xiao Ge, Chunchen Xu, Hazel Rose Markus, and Jeanne L Tsai (CHI 2024) #culture #ai #hci

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...

📣3rd #CFP for #GITT2025 at @mtsummit2025.bsky.social on 23 June 2025 🏁Deadline = 10 March 🕵️Gender bias in translation and MT, inclusive language, mitigation strategies, and more 📝Research papers, abstracts, communications & potluck presentations welcome! 🕸️All info on 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

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! 👀

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

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...

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.

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

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