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.
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FBK MT at EMNLP 2025
Nov 4, 2025
We are happy to announce that four members of the MT group, Beatrice Savoldi, Lina Varella Conti, ...
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2 Papers Accepted at CLiC-it 2025
Jul 21, 2025
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3 Papers Accepted at INTERSPEECH 2025
May 27, 2025
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Our pick of the week by @FBKZhihangXie: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by @WangDingdo2603, Junan Li, @HelenMeng_CUHK, et al. (#EMNLP2025)
#SLU #SpeechTech
🚀 New paper: Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features?
📄 https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1266.pdf
🧩 A comprehensive benchmark of SpeechLLMs using HuBERT/WavLM with Qwen & LLaMA.
✨ Continuous features outperform overall, while discrete tokens excel at phoneme-level detail.
🚀 Exciting news from the @FBK_MT group!
Four of our members @BeatriceSavoldi, @lina_conti, @negri_teo & @luisabentivogli are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou 🇨🇳 with 5 accepted papers!
Come to our sessions & let's connect:
🔗 https://mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-emnlp-2025/
We’re also hiring postdocs!⚡
🎉🎓Congratulations to our PhD student @DennisFucci on a very successful thesis defense! 👏
Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @debora_nozza, @mirco_ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work!
#nlproc