- Marco Turchi, post-doc in machine translation. Now at Zoom Video Communications.
- Nicola Bertoldi, post-doc in machine translation. Now at Translated, Italy.
- Dino Seppi, post-doc in automatic speech recognition. Dino moved to Polderland Language & Speech Technology in Nijmegen (NL), and then to Leuven University, Belgium.
- Gabriele Musillo, post-doc in machine translation, Oct 2009-Aug 2010. Project: EuromatrixPlus. Currently senior researcher for Localot Research, Boston.
- Boxing Chen, post-doc in machine translation, Jan 2005-Mar 2007. Project: TC-STAR. Currently senior researcher at Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore.
- Deepa Gupta, post-doc in machine translation, Jan 2005-Mar 2007. Project: TC-STAR. Now at IIIT – Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India.
- Georg Stemmer, post-doc in automatic speech recognition, Sep 2003-Mar 2005. Post-doc grant from the autonomous Province of Trento. Now with Siemens AG, Munich, Germany.
🚀 New tech report out! Meet FAMA, our open-science speech foundation model family for both ASR and ST in 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian.
The models are live and ready to try on @huggingface 👇
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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.
🚀 New shared task at #WMT2025 (co-located with @emnlpmeeting ): Model Compression for Machine Translation!
Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high?🔧
Submit by July 3 and push the limits of efficient NLP!
👉 https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression
More great news! 🎉
Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” was accepted at #Interspeech2025!
Interested in interpretability for speech models? Preprint coming soon!
✍🏼 @mgaido91, @negri_teo, M.Cettolo, @luisabentivogli