3 Papers Accepted at INTERSPEECH 2026

We’re glad to share that the three papers, co-authored by our Machine Translation Group at FBK, have been accepted at INTERSPEECH 2026!

• Maike Züfle, Sara Papi, Fabian Retkowski, Szymon Mazurek, Marek Kasztelnik, Alexander Waibel, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues, “Do What I Say: A Spoken Prompt Dataset for Instruction-Following”. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09881
• Peter Polak, Sara Papi, Luisa Bentivogli, Ondrej Bojar. “Better Late Than Never: Evaluating Latency Metrics for Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation”. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17349
• Sara Papi, Dennis Fucci, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli. “Cross-Attention is Half Explanation in Speech-to-Text Models”. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18010

See you in Sydney! 🎉