PRESTO

Sep 1, 2000 | Projects

1 September 2000 to 31 March 2002 - PROJECT CLOSED

The European project PRESTO developed tools for broadcast archives to enable lower cost and more cost-effective digitisation of legacy and obsolete formats for audio and video. The required tools related to media selection, handling, conversion, long-term storage, distribution and access control.

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#MachineTranslation Research Unit @FBK_research. #nlproc #deeplearning #ai

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14 Nov

Heading home tired but very happy after a fantastic #EMNLP2025 (and some well-deserved vacation 😎).
We were super busy presenting 5 papers! It was fantastic catching up with colleagues, exchanging ideas, and seeing all the amazing work in the #NLProc community!

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12 Nov

Our pick of the week by @FBKZhihangXie: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by @WangDingdo2603, Junan Li, @HelenMeng_CUHK, et al. (#EMNLP2025)

#SLU #SpeechTech

Zhihang Xie @FBKZhihangXie

🚀 New paper: Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features?
📄 https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1266.pdf
🧩 A comprehensive benchmark of SpeechLLMs using HuBERT/WavLM with Qwen & LLaMA.
✨ Continuous features outperform overall, while discrete tokens excel at phoneme-level detail.

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4 Nov

🚀 Exciting news from the @FBK_MT group!
Four of our members @BeatriceSavoldi, @lina_conti, @negri_teo & @luisabentivogli are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou 🇨🇳 with 5 accepted papers!

Come to our sessions & let's connect:
🔗 https://mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-emnlp-2025/

We’re also hiring postdocs!⚡

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31 Oct

🎉🎓Congratulations to our PhD student @DennisFucci on a very successful thesis defense! 👏

Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @debora_nozza, @mirco_ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work!

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