3 Papers Accepted at INTERSPEECH 2025

May 27, 2025 | News

We’re glad to share that the three papers, co-authored by our Machine Translation Group at FBK, have been accepted at INTERSPEECH 2025!

Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution. Dennis Fucci, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, Mauro Cettolo, Luisa Bentivogli.
How to Connect Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models? What Matters and What Does Not. Francesco Verdini*, Pierfrancesco Melucci*, Stefano Perna*, Francesco Cariaggi*, Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Szymon Mazurek, Marek Kasztelnik, Luisa Bentivogli, Sébastien Bratières, Paolo Merialdo, Simone Scardapane.
Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages. Nithin Rao Koluguri, Monica Sekoyan, George Zelenfroynd, Sasha Meister, Shuoyang Ding, Sofia Kostandian, He Huang, Nikolay Karpov, Jagadeesh Balam, Vitaly Lavrukhin, Yifan Peng, Sara Papi, Marco Gaido, Alessio Brutti, Boris Ginsburg.

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Avatar Sara Papi @sarapapi ·

30 May

🚀 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

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29 May

Our pick of the week by @lina_conti: "Languages in Multilingual Speech Foundation Models Align Both Phonetically and Semantically" by @soheunshim, Domenico De Cristofaro, Chengzhi Martin Hu, Alessandro Vietti, and @barbara_plank (2025).

#speech #SFM #multilingual #speechtech

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Pick of the week @fbk_mt: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19606 by @soheunshim @DomenicoDeCris1. 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.

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Avatar Marco Gaido @mgaido91 ·

26 May

🚀 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

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Avatar Dennis Fucci @dennisfucci ·

19 May

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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