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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

The MTSummit2025 is looking for volunteers as emergency reviewers. If you are available and want to help, please fill out this form: forms.gle/dqVDVocx6dGmmC…

✨ IWSLT paper submission deadline update ✨ Paper submission deadline: 🗓️ March 22, 2025 🔗 SoftConf portal: softconf.com/acl2025/iwslt2… For more details, see: iwslt.org/2025/#paper-su…

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

📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at IWSLT 2025 just started! 🖥️ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system! The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project! ➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl

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 🥳

📢 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

Dear IWSLT 2025 Shared Tasks participant(s), Please register for the Evaluation Campaign via the registration form (if you haven't yet): forms.gle/fc4dP4d522zaNU…

If you are attending NAACL HLT 2025 and interested in speech-to-text processing , drop by the poster of the paper "Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison"! 🎙️ 🔊 Tsz Kin will present the work during Poster Session 1 (11:00-12:3), Room Hall 3!

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I am honored to have received this award today! 🎊

🎉 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

🚀 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

FAMA: The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian. arxiv.org/abs/2505.22759

🔍 Ciao! Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio! 👉bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2n… (è anonimo, dura ~10 m, se partecipi o lo diffondi ci aiuti un sacco🙏) Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano di AI!

🚀 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

Exciting news for ACL 2025! 📚 Papers from Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) will be presented at the conference in Vienna! 🎉 Get ready for cutting-edge research in NLP. #ACL2025NLP #TACL #NLProc 2025.aclweb.org/program/tacl_p…

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…