The Machine Translation group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler specializes in speech and text technologies for multilingual communication. We work on innovative neural architectures and multimodal resources for a range of topics and applications (e.g. subtitling, interpreting, gender inclusivity). We are part of the Digital Industry center.

If you are fascinated by languages, cutting edge technology and research challenges, check out our Join Us page!

🚀 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 @huggingface 👇
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#ASR #ST #OpenScience #MultilingualAI

🚀 New shared task at #WMT2025 (co-located with @emnlpmeeting ): 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!
👉 https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression

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!

✍🏼 @mgaido91, @negri_teo, M.Cettolo, @luisabentivogli

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