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

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