Sara Papi

Researcher @FBK_Research | Prev: intern @Microsoft

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

@CMHungSteven @MaikeZufle @fbk_mt @mgaido91 @BeatriceSavoldi @Ai4Lt @Translation @MeetweenEU @_janius_ @luisabentivogli Thank you 🙏

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

🇧🇷 Heading to 𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗥 2026 to present our paper 𝗠𝗖𝗜𝗙 🚀 The first human-annotated crosslingual multimodal instruction-following benchmark.

🗣️ Drop by the poster if you are interested in Speech AI!

Check it out:
https://t.co/VraL2xPNUw

[Marco Gaido @mgaido91]

🚀 New Shared Task: Model Compression for Machine Translation at #WMT2026 (co-located with #EMNLP2026)!
📅 Test data out on June 18th, submissions by July 2nd!
Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high? 🧠🔧
👉 https://t.co/8fTecFpZYa #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression

[arXiv Sound @ArxivSound]

Amirbek Djanibekov, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri, Sara Papi, "SimulU: Training-free Policy for Long-form Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation," https://t.co/y7PlqS8qoU

[Tina ✨ @ScuderTina]

Chinese Gp: Mario Kart edition 🍄🏎️

[Meetween @MeetweenEU]

@sarapapi introduces MCIF, a new benchmark evaluating 23 SOTA models, revealing gaps in speech–video integration & long-form processing.

🎥 Watch the recording: https://t.co/TDdfBu6C6I

#Meetween #MultimodalAI #LLMs #AIResearch

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

Very interesting new paper about combining Simultaneous Speech Translation and RAG to improve translation quality! Check it out: https://t.co/xptPCHHE0Y

#Speech #SpeechTech #Translation #RAG

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

🚀 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: @iwslt Instruction Following 2026

Build general-purpose instruction-following speech models for 🌍 EN/DE/IT/ZH languages!

📅 Eval: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 1 | Submit: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 15

👉 https://t.co/mzCIlkc80z

#IWSLT2026 #SpeechAI #MultimodalAI

[Marco Gaido @mgaido91]

Hi all! I am looking for 2 emergency reviewers for #ACL rolling review on speech models. If you can help please get in touch with me and/or spread the word! Thanks!

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

Thrilled to share our paper “MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks” is accepted at @iclr_conf 2026 🎉

🎞️ MCIF is a fully human-annotated, multimodal & cross-lingual IF benchmark.

🔗 Preprint: https://t.co/5sw3Q8M60R

#ICLR2026 #AI

[Cohere Labs @Cohere_Labs]

Our Multimodal group is looking forward to hosting @sarapapi tomorrow, Friday, January 23rd for a presentation on "Towards Crosslingual Evaluation of General-Purpose Instruction-Following Models Across Text, Speech, and Vision."

Learn more: https://t.co/D9p1AzRkgC

[Slator @slatornews]

👉 https://t.co/i3wJ1XrGSm
A new community-driven initiative evaluates 🔍 large language models using Italian-native 🇮🇹 tasks, with #AI #translation included among the challenge areas.
#xl8 #t9n #LLMs @AILC_NLP @vivi_patti @basilepp @peppeatta @matteozio @daniel_sc4 @luisabentivogli @AriannaBisazza @leodecosmo @AnsaScienza @mgaido91 @ItziarGD @MorenoLaQuatra @frannyezooey @arianna_muti @negri_teo @sarapapi @FBK_Research @apierg @teelinsan @gsarti_ @BeatriceSavoldi @Unibocconi @EUI_EU @expertdotai @GalileoEducNet @HeriotWattUni @Idiap_ch @itnewspt @IussPavia @SapienzaRoma @UniBarcelona

[AI Native Foundation @AINativeF]

13. Simulstream: Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluation and Demonstration of Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation Systems

🔑 Keywords: AI-generated summary, Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation, incremental decoding, re-translation methods, web interface

💡 Category: AI Systems and Tools

🌟 Research Objective:
- Introduce simulstream, an open-source framework for evaluating and demonstrating streaming speech-to-text translation systems, with a focus on long-form audio processing.

🛠️ Research Methods:
- Supports incremental decoding and re-translation methods, providing a unified framework for comparing quality and latency. Incorporates an interactive web interface for system demonstrations.

💬 Research Conclusions:
- Simulstream is highlighted as a solution to the limitations of SimulEval, offering features for long-form audio processing and an easy demonstration platform.

👉 Paper link: https://t.co/sgUshS8Zuk

[Katsuhito Sudoh @katsuhito_sudoh]

Simulstream: Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluation and Demonstration of Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation Systems
https://t.co/igy8foyZre
by @mgaido91 @sarapapi

[arXiv Sound @ArxivSound]

Sara Papi, Javier Garcia Gilabert, et al., "Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs,", https://t.co/uIG13VsOUV

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

Check out the paper at https://t.co/nkgVjZNkgX!

[PaperLens @BayCoralee26992]

LMM latest research progress | 5. Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs
#AI #DeepLearning #ArtificialInteligence #Datascience #Research #MLLM #MultimodalAI #Multimodal

[Sara Papi @sarapapi]

🗣️ Calling all researchers & practitioners in #Speech #Translation!

Help shape the future of the #Simultaneous track at @iwslt 2026. Your input matters!

Please spare 3-5 min to fill out this quick survey📋:
➡️ https://t.co/tMw4NfVqZZ

[FIA @fia]

Leonardo Fornaroli is your 2025 FIA Formula 2 Champion !! 🏆

After winning the FIA F3 championship last year, he seals the FIA F2 championship in Qatar 🇶🇦

#FIA #F2 #QatarGP

[MT Group at FBK @fbk_mt]

Our next presentation is by @sarapapi: "How real is your real-time simultaneous speech-to-text translation system?"

Look for the answer in her TACL paper: https://t.co/psaL5wwbTO

#lt2025fbk

[MT Group at FBK @fbk_mt]

🚀 Join us for the LT@FBK day 2025! Discover cutting-edge research and highlights in speech and language technologies from @FBK_research
📅 October 28, 2025
📍FBK, Trento
ℹ️ https://t.co/38IG1HDAj0