🚀 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...

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

Thanks to all the participants! #clicit2025

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

Last oral session of the first #clicit2025 day! See you all at the welcome drink!

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DH Group at FBK@dh-fbk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

An interesting survey about #RAG and its interplay with #multimodality: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19473 @fbk-mt.bsky.social

MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks Read more: https://arxiv.org/html/2507.19634v1

Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634

@sarapapi.bsky.social presented her TACL paper: “How real is your real-time simultaneous speech-to-text translation system?” 👉 aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.14/ (2/6)

🔥 Is your real-time SimulST system REAL? Our TACL paper analyzes 110 works and reveals: 🚫 Overreliance on short-form speech 🌀 Terminology chaos 📉 Real-world deployment gaps We bring order-New taxonomy, trends & recommendations! 📍#ACL2025 Poster: Monday 11-12:30, Hall 4/5 #Speech #SpeechTech

🔍 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

FAMA - a FBK-MT Collection

The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian

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If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/...

I am honored to have received this award today! 🎊

MT Group at FBK@fbk-mt.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 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

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 🥳

📢 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

I'm thrilled to be one of the speakers at the next MT Marathon in Helsinki 🚀 I look forward to sharing insights on automatic translation and related topics with our community!

Helsinki NLP@helsinki-nlp.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for participation: We just opened the registration for this year's MT Marathon in August in Helsinki, Finland: blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec..., featuring: - Ayodele Awokoya - Wilker Aziz - Marta Costa-Jussa - Barry Haddow - Amit Moryosse - Sara Papi - Jörg Tiedemann - Marco Turchi

Glad to see that the model weights of the new Step-Audio, a speech foundation model + large language model (+ speech decoder) architecture, are published under open licenses! 🆓 arxiv.org/abs/2502.11946

Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction

Real-time speech interaction, serving as a fundamental interface for human-machine collaboration, holds immense potential. However, current open-source models face limitations such as high costs in vo...

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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! 👀

I'm happy to share that our paper "Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison" has been accepted at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! #NAACL2025 @mgaido91.bsky.social 👏 📃 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02370 ⏰ Code will be released soon #NLProc #Speech

Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison

Following the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in NLP tasks, there is increasing interest in extending their capabilities to speech -- the most common form in communication. To integ...

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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!

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🙌 All members of our group are now on Bluesky! 🙌 You can find all of us in this starter pack 👇

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...

I’m glad to announce that our work “How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?” has been accepted at the Transactions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social (TACL)! 🎉 The preprint is available here: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.18495

Our @apierg.bsky.social presenting our #calamita challenges at #CLiCit2024: machine translation and gender-fair generation. Poster session upcoming, see you there! For more details: 👉 MagneT: clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u... 👉 GFG: clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...

🌍 Interested in Simultaneous Translation? We're organizing the IWSLT SimulST Shared Task and would love your input for the 2025 edition. 🗣️ 📝 Share your thoughts here: forms.gle/LwkF3284NzZd...

IWSLT 2025 SimulST Shared Task Survey

A survey taking about 3-5 minutes that will assist organizers in shaping how the aforementioned shared task is structured at IWSLT 2025.

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Today @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, Dennis Fucci, and @apierg.bsky.social presented a research communication about gender-neutral translation in the morning poster session #CLiCit2024 #NLProc

We are happy to announce that our PhD students Dennis Fucci and @apierg.bsky.social along with our head of unit @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, will attend #CLiCit2024 in Pisa! Meet them at the poster presentations during the main conference and the #CALAMITA event!