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❓→ ✉️ mlr_paris_internships@group.apple.com

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

Leveraging Audio-Visual Data to Reduce the Multilingual Gap in Self-Supervised Speech Models

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has made significant advances in speech representation learning. Models like wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT have achieved state-of-the-art results in tasks such as speech recogn...

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🎙️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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Marvin Lavechin@marvinlavechin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glad to share this new study comparing the performance and biases of the LENA and ACLEW algorithms in analyzing language environments in Down, Fragile X, Angelman syndromes, and populations at elevated likelihood for autism 👶📄 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/12

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)

NeurIPS participation in Europe

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

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🎉 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

Simulating Early Phonetic and Word Learning Without Linguistic Categories

Before they even talk, infants become sensitive to the speech sounds of their native language and recognize the auditory form of an increasing number of words. Traditionally, these early perceptual c...

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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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Lucie Charlotte Magister@charlottemagister.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking for an alternative to RAG for personalization? With PLUM, a pipeline for teaching LLMs to remember prior user conversations, we aim to enable your future personalization research! Joint work with @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social, Katherine Metcalf and Yizhe Zhang from my internship at Apple. 🧵

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