Thanks to all the participants! #clicit2025

Our very own @sarapapi.bsky.social presenting FAMA at #clicit2025:

📗Paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
🔗 Models: hf.co/collections/...
📊 Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK...
💻 Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-f...

Joint work with @speechtekfbk.bsky.social

Last oral session of the first #clicit2025 day! See you all at the welcome drink!

I’m the guest 🙋🏻‍♀️

🚀 Excited to present FAMA, the first large-scale #OpenScience #Speech foundation model for 🇮🇹 Italian & 🇬🇧 English, at #clicit2025 (17:30–18:45 oral session)!

🔗 Models: hf.co/collections/...
📊 Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK...
💻 Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-f...
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22759

An interesting survey about #RAG and its interplay with #multimodality: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey

arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19473

@fbk-mt.bsky.social

MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
Read more: https://arxiv.org/html/2507.19634v1

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
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634

@sarapapi.bsky.social presented her TACL paper: “How real is your real-time simultaneous speech-to-text translation system?”

👉 aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.14/
(2/6)

How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?

Official paper: direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...

🔥 Is your real-time SimulST system REAL?

Our TACL paper analyzes 110 works and reveals:
🚫 Overreliance on short-form speech
🌀 Terminology chaos
📉 Real-world deployment gaps
We bring order-New taxonomy, trends & recommendations!

📍#ACL2025 Poster: Monday 11-12:30, Hall 4/5

#Speech #SpeechTech

🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!

👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)

Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!

FAMA - a FBK-MT Collection The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian

🚀 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 @hf.co:
🔗 huggingface.co/collections/...

📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22759

#ASR #ST #OpenScience #MultilingualAI

Inline citations with only first author name, or first two co-first author names.

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :)

github.com/tpimentelms/...

I am honored to have received this award today! 🎊

The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks!

The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! ⏰

Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳

📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at
@iwslt.bsky.social just started!

🖥️ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system!

The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project (www.meetween.eu)!
➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl

Thanks a lot! @deboranozza.bsky.social already added me to the channel 😊

I'm thrilled to be one of the speakers at the next MT Marathon in Helsinki 🚀

I look forward to sharing insights on automatic translation and related topics with our community!

❤️

Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction Real-time speech interaction, serving as a fundamental interface for human-machine collaboration, holds immense potential. However, current open-source models face limitations such as high costs in vo...

Glad to see that the model weights of the new Step-Audio, a speech foundation model + large language model (+ speech decoder) architecture, are published under open licenses! 🆓

arxiv.org/abs/2502.11946

As if you needed more reasons to submit to #GITT2025:
🔑🎵 Cristina Anselmi, video game #localization & #AI expert with a focus on #inclusive #language will be our keynote speaker!
💸Registration fees are on the MTSummit website and you can register just for GITT if you so choose 😎
👀 See you there! 👀

Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison Following the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in NLP tasks, there is increasing interest in extending their capabilities to speech -- the most common form in communication. To integ...

I'm happy to share that our paper "Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison" has been accepted at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! #NAACL2025

@mgaido91.bsky.social 👏

📃 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02370
⏰ Code will be released soon

#NLProc #Speech

a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of branches . ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of branches .

Hello world! 👋 We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news:
1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there!
2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

🙌 All members of our group are now on Bluesky! 🙌

You can find all of us in this starter pack 👇

Exciting news: IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 again this year! 🎉

Interested in speech processing? Check out the new task on instruction following — any model can participate! 🚀

📅 Data release: April 1
⏳ Submission deadline: April 15

💬 iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

I’m glad to announce that our work “How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?” has been accepted at the Transactions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social (TACL)! 🎉

The preprint is available here:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.18495

Our @apierg.bsky.social presenting our #calamita challenges at #CLiCit2024: machine translation and gender-fair generation.

Poster session upcoming, see you there!

For more details:
👉 MagneT: clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...
👉 GFG: clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...

IWSLT 2025 SimulST Shared Task Survey A survey taking about 3-5 minutes that will assist organizers in shaping how the aforementioned shared task is structured at IWSLT 2025.

🌍 Interested in Simultaneous Translation? We're organizing the IWSLT SimulST Shared Task and would love your input for the 2025 edition. 🗣️

📝 Share your thoughts here: forms.gle/LwkF3284NzZd...

Today @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, Dennis Fucci, and @apierg.bsky.social presented a research communication about gender-neutral translation in the morning poster session #CLiCit2024 #NLProc