- 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.
🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP!
Interested in training a SpeechLLM without a lot of params or data? Come to my poster:
🖼️ Mon, 18:00
Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with @fbk_mt:
🎤 Fri, 14:00
Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎
Papers in 🧵
Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues, "MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks,"
Our pick of the week by @mgaido91: "WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers" by Atila Orhon, Arda Okan, Berkin Durmus, @zachnagengast, and Eduardo Pacheco (ICML 2025)
#speech #speechtech #whisper #ASR #realtime
A couple of weeks before presenting our large-scale speech model compression task at IWSLT, here there is of the first attempts to bring large-scale models to the devices on the edge: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10860... Hope to see more works along this direction!
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
🚀 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