Zhihang Xie

PhD Student

    Short bio

    Zhihang Xie is a PhD student at the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

    He holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, specializing in Speech Technologies.

    Research topics

    SpeechLLMs, Long-form Speech Processing


    • Speech Recognition

    • Speech Translation

    • Spoken Question Answering

    • Speech Summarization

    • Audio Chaptering

    Publications

    1. Xie, Zhihang; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      International Conference on Spoken Language Translation,
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2026
      , pp. -

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