An investment by the Autonomous Province of Trento in young talents involved in projects in synergy between FBK and the University of Trento on common research and highly innovative technological development initiatives that will pave the way for market and societal impact. The research activities will take place in the 4 macro-areas of Integrative AI, AI at the edge, Certified AI, and Interactive AI.
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
🚀 Boost rare-phrase translation in speech! Uses **bilingual dictionaries** to dynamically bias outputs.
✅ **+21%** recall in streaming ST
✅ **+85%** in multimodal LLMs
🔗: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09175
FAMA è il primo foundation model vocale open-science per ita e eng, sviluppato da FBK. Riconosce e traduce la voce usando solo dati e strumenti pubblici: oltre 150.000 ore di audio open, codice e processi completamente accessibili.
@fbk_stek @fbk_mt
https://magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/la-prima-famiglia-di-modelli-open-science-per-il-riconoscimento-vocale-e-la-traduzione-del-parlato/
Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian university and defended between August 1st 2024 and July 31st 2025
- Deadline: August 1st, 2025 (11:59 pm CEST)
- All details online: https://clic2025.unica.it/emanuele-pianta-award-for-the-best-masters-thesis/
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Speech Representation Analysis Based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities" by Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury (ICASSP Workshops 2024)
#speech #speechtech
Findings from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10669908 show that speech SSL models converge on similar embedding spaces, but via different routes. While overall representations align, individual neurons learn distinct localized concepts.
Interesting read! @fbk_mt