We're on for Round 3! 🚀 Working on #gender and #translationtechnology? We'll see you in Geneva at MTSummit2025 for #GITT2025! 📆Submission deadline: 10 March 🕸️Info on our website: sites.google.com/tilburgunivers… 👋Future updates at bsky.app/profile/gitt-w…

I'm happy to share that our paper "Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison" has been accepted at NAACL NAACL HLT 2027 2025! #NAACL2025 Tsz Kin Marco Gaido 👏 📃 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02370 ⏰ Code will be released soon #NLProc #Speech

🚀 New IWSLT shared task on model compression: shrink a large multimodal model while preserving speech translation quality. Are you in? 🌍 Smaller is greener! #IWSLT2025 #NLP #SpeechTech #SustainableAI iwslt.org/2025/model-com…

As someone investigating how speech models use acoustic-related info, it’s great to see more work on evaluating whether prosodic features are leveraged in speech translation, like in aclanthology.org/2024.wmt-1.119/. We definitely need more research in this space! MT Group at FBK

Had a great time visiting MilaNLP last week and sharing some of my latest work on #XAI in #SpeechTranslation! Thanks for having me! 😊

Our first guest speaker to join the virtual stage at #SlatorCon Remote is Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK’s Sara Papi, where she explores How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous #Speech-to-Text #Translation System? 💡 #SlatorConRemote #SCRemoteMar25 #AI #xl8 #t9n #NLP

Happy to announce that our paper 'An LLM-as-a-judge Approach for Scalable Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation' was accepted at #GITT2025! 🙌 Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11934 🔥 Co-authors (🫶🏻): BeatriceSavoldi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli

Yesterday I celebrated #WorldVoiceDay at Università di Torino, sharing some thoughts and highlights from my research on AI and voice. A truly enjoyable event, with inspiring and diverse talks on the many dimensions of voice!

📢 Come and join our group! We offer a fully funded 3-year PhD position: 📔Automatic translation with large multimodal models iecs.unitn.it/education/admi… 📍Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/admi… 📅Deadline May 12, 2025 #NLProc Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK

🎉 Excited to share that our Sara Papi has won the 2024 Best PhD Award from the Information and Engineering Doctoral School at UniTrento_DISI for her thesis “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: The Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios.” #nlproc Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK

🎉 Excited to share our paper “Different Speech Translation Models Encode and Translate Speaker Gender Differently” was accepted at #ACL2025 (main)! ✍🏼 Big thanks to amazing co-authors: Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli, Andre Martins, Giuseppe Attanasio! 📄 Preprint out soon!

More great news! 🎉 Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” was accepted at #Interspeech2025! Interested in interpretability for speech models? Preprint coming soon! ✍🏼 Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, M.Cettolo, Luisa Bentivogli

🚀 New shared task at #WMT2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025 ): Model Compression for Machine Translation! Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high?🔧 Submit by July 3 and push the limits of efficient NLP! 👉 www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-co… #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression

Pick of the week MT Group at FBK: arxiv.org/abs/2505.19606 by Ryan Soh-Eun Shim Domenico De Cristofaro. XAI work on cross-lingual alignment in speech-to-text models that disentangles phonetics and semantics. Plus: their XAI insights yield actionable improvements for low-resource language performance.

🚀 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

🚀 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

Findings from ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10669… show that speech SSL models converge on similar embedding spaces, but via different routes. While overall representations align, individual neurons learn distinct localized concepts. Interesting read! MT Group at FBK

Heading home after an exciting and intense ACL 2025 in Vienna! We had a great time presenting our work and connecting with the community. Thanks to everyone who came by! #acl2025 #nlproc (1/6)

Sara Papi Dennis Fucci shared insightful findings on gender bias through the lens of interpretability: "Different speech translation models encode and translate speaker gender differently" 👉aclanthology.org/2025.acl-short… (3/6)

If you're in Rotterdam for Interspeech, join us on Monday for the special session on Interpretability in Speech Technology 🕚 11:00 AM 📍Dock 15 🎙️ 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 by 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓. 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑢 🖼️ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 for 15 accepted papers #Interspeech2025