In the present-day Europe, with its well-established national air quality and meteorological networks, there are solid ties between the air quality and meteorological agencies and seemingly well-connected data distribution networks. However, there is an increasing need for the orchestration of environmental services spread across the Web in order to provide users with personalised decision support or tailored environmental information. PESCaDO aimed to meet this need for environmental service orchestration. It offered an interconnected multipurpose environmental user-oriented service for a federated community of citizens, public services (such as tourist offices and environmental institutions), public administrations, and entrepreneurs active in sectors sensitive to environmental conditions.
๐ New tech report out! Meet FAMA, our open-science speech foundation model family for both ASR and ST in ๐ฌ๐ง English and ๐ฎ๐น Italian.
The models are live and ready to try on @huggingface ๐
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#ASR #ST #OpenScience #MultilingualAI
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
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.
๐ New shared task at #WMT2025 (co-located with @emnlpmeeting ): Model Compression for Machine Translation!
Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high?๐ง
Submit by July 3 and push the limits of efficient NLP!
๐ https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression
More great news! ๐
Our paper โEchoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attributionโ was accepted at #Interspeech2025!
Interested in interpretability for speech models? Preprint coming soon!
โ๐ผ @mgaido91, @negri_teo, M.Cettolo, @luisabentivogli