Cosa chiedono davvero gli italiani all’intelligenza artificiale? FBK in collaborazione con RiTA lancia un’indagine aperta a tutte/i per capire usi reali, abitudini e bisogni. Bastano 10 minuti per partecipare, scopri di più: magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/italia…

Our pick of the week by Beomseok LEE: "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

🚀 Last call for the Model Compression for Machine Translation task at #WMT2025 (co-located with #EMNLP2025)! Test data out on June 19 ➡️ 2 weeks for evaluation! Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high? 👉 www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-co… #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression

Our pick of the week by Dennis Fucci: "Speech Representation Analysis Based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities" by Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury (ICASSP Workshops 2024) #speech #speechtech

FAMA è il primo foundation model vocale open-science per ita e eng, sviluppato da FBK. Riconosce e traduce la voce usando solo dati e strumenti pubblici: oltre 150.000 ore di audio open, codice e processi completamente accessibili. fbk_stek MT Group at FBK magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/la-pri…

Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian university and defended between August 1st 2024 and July 31st 2025 - Deadline: August 1st, 2025 (11:59 pm CEST) - All details online: clic2025.unica.it/emanuele-piant…

Our pick of the week by Zhihang Xie: "PHRASED: Phrase Dictionary Biasing for Speech Translation" by Peidong Wang, Jian Xue, Rui Zhao, Junkun Chen, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, and Jinyu Li (2025). #Speech #SpeechAI #Translation #ST #SpeechTranslation

A special evening in Rome to talk about Physical AI and Europe’s role in shaping this new frontier. Partners from across Europe came together to present the DVPS project, and connect with key people from public institutions, embassies, industries, national & international media.

Thrilled to be part of this amazing project and team!

Our pick of the week by Zhihang Xie: "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) #speech #speechprocessing #speechtech #translation

Our pick of the week by Marco Gaido: "WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers" by Atila Orhon, Arda Okan, Berkin Durmus, Zach Nagengast, and Eduardo Pacheco (ICML 2025) arxiv.org/abs/2507.10860 #speech #speechtech #whisper #ASR #realtime

🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP! Interested in training a SpeechLLM without a lot of params or data? Come to my poster: 🖼️ Mon, 18:00 Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with MT Group at FBK: 🎤 Fri, 14:00 Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎 Papers in 🧵

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," arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634

📢📢 We invite proposals for IWSLT 2026 shared tasks! For further information on this initiative, please refer to the iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IW… Submission deadline: September 30th, 2025 Jan Niehues Marcello Federico Atul Kr. Ojha Elizabeth Salesky Katsuhito Sudoh (ja) ACL 2025 ELRA