Meteo Trentino and FBK started a collaboration in 2009 with the goal of developing a translation system for weather forecast bulletins. On a daily basis, Meteo Trentino compiles and makes available through the WEB site a weather bulletin related to the Trentino area written in Italian. An equivalent or shortened version of that bulletin is also published in English and German after a manual translation made by forecasters. FBK has been asked to provide forecasters with a system for the automatic translation of Italian bulletins into those two languages. In the course of 2009, FBK has developed the translation system and a simple interface (shown in the figure below) which have been delivered to Meteo Trentino, whose forecasters are currently using. The project has been extended to 2010 with the goal of improving the quality of the automatic translation by exploiting feedback from real users.
Our pick of the week by @FBKZhihangXie: "Adversarial Speech-Text Pre-Training for Speech Translation" by Chenxuan Liu, Liping Chen, Weitai Zhang, Xiaoxi Li, Peiwang Tang, Mingjia Yu, Sreyan Ghosh, and Zhongyi Ye (ICASSP 2025)
#speech #speechprocessing #speechtech #translation
π AdvST: Adversarial training aligns speech and text distributions without parallel data! Combines adversarial learning + hidden-state swapping to fix length mismatch & boost low-resource speech translation. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10888294
A special evening in Rome to talk about Physical AI and Europeβs role in shaping this new frontier.
Partners from across Europe came together to present the DVPS project, and connect with key people from public institutions, embassies, industries, national & international media.
Thrilled to be part of this amazing project and team!
π DVPS has launched at Translated's HQ!
70 researchers from 20 institutions across 9 countries unite to build next-gen multimodal foundation models that learn from real-world interaction.
A new European AI journey begins.
#DVPS #PhysicalAI #HorizonEurope #MultimodalAI
Our pick of the week by @FBKZhihangXie: "PHRASED: Phrase Dictionary Biasing for Speech Translation" by Peidong Wang, Jian Xue, Rui Zhao, @ChenJunkun, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, and Jinyu Li (2025).
#Speech #SpeechAI #Translation #ST #SpeechTranslation
π Boost rare-phrase translation in speech! Uses **bilingual dictionaries** to dynamically bias outputs.
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**+21%** recall in streaming ST
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**+85%** in multimodal LLMs
π: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09175