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 ACL Anthology (TACL)! 🎉 The preprint is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18495

``High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation,'' Tom Labiausse, Laurent Mazar\'e, Edouard Grave, Patrick P\'erez, Alexandre D\'efossez, Neil Zeghidour, ift.tt/OEpvThy

Thrilled to share our latest findings on data contamination, from my internship at Google! We trained almost 90 Models on 1B and 8B scales with various contamination types using machine translation as our task and analyze the impact of contamination. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18771

``BLAB: Brutally Long Audio Bench,'' Orevaoghene Ahia, Martijn Bartelds, Kabir Ahuja, Hila Gonen, Valentin Hofmann, Siddhant Arora, Shuyue Stella Li, Vishal Puttagunta, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Charishma Buchireddy, Ben Walls, Noah Bennett, Shinji Watanabe, N… ift.tt/MbhiCOa

Giving your models more time to think before prediction, like via smart decoding, chain-of-thoughts reasoning, latent thoughts, etc, turns out to be quite effective for unblocking the next level of intelligence. New post is here :) “Why we think”: lilianweng.github.io/posts/2025-05-…

🚀 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 Hugging Face 👇 🔗 huggingface.co/collections/FB… #ASR #ST #OpenScience #MultilingualAI

🔥 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

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

Had lots of fun meeting and talking with everyone this last few days at the MT Marathon in Helsinki!!! Wish everyone a safe trip back home :)