Meetween is an EU-funded project building ethical, inclusive, human-centred video tech. #Meetween #AIForGood

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If you work in the language industry and are in Rome, you can't miss the ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ˆ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”, organised by our partner TAUS to celebrate European translation technology. Come and meet us!๐Ÿ‘‡
๐ŸŒ ๐๐ข ๐’๐œ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐š๐ญ ๐“๐€๐”๐’ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ? That's not a hypothetical. It's what the Meetween project is building. On 5 June, Pi School's Managing Director Sรฉbastien Bratiรจres will take the stage at the TAUS Massively Multilingual AI Conference in Rome to present Meetween, the EU Horizon Europe project developing technology for multilingual, multimodal AI-powered meetings, where language and culture no longer become barriers. The consortium behind Meetween includes Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK, ฤฐstanbul Teknik รœniversitesi, Karlsruher Institut fรผr Technologie (KIT), Zoom, Translated, and TAUS, the organiser of the event. ๐Ÿ“ Rome | 5 June, 11:15 | Day 2 ๐…๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ @MeetweenEU on LinkedIn and X and visit ๐Ÿ‘‰ย  pischool.link/Meetween #Meetween #TAUS2026 #MultilingualAI #MachineTranslation #EUHorizon #ArtificialIntelligence #NLP #HorizonEurope
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Many languages are left behind by AI translation. Not for lack of need, but lack of data. Meetween is closing that gap. See us at #TAUS2026 in Rome, 3โ€“5 June. #Meetween #MultilingualAI
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๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ž๐ญ #๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐š๐ญ ๐‹๐‘๐„๐‚ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”! Two @FBK_research papers accepted. Palma de Mallorca, 11โ€“16 May. #LREC2026
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Two Meetween papers at #LREC2026 by @MaikeZufle, PhD researcher in instruction-following speech models and full-duplex dialogue at the Karlsruher Institut fรผr Technologie (KIT). ๐Ÿ“„ MuSaG ๐Ÿ“„ Talk2Ref ๐Ÿ‘‰ lrec2026.info/ #Meetween #NLP
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4 papers accepted at #LREC -COLING 2026 in Palma de Mallorca ๐ŸŽ‰ Sarcasm detection, reference prediction, gender bias in speech translation, and low-resource ASR. Meet the team, 11โ€“16 May 2026 ๐Ÿ‘‰ lrec2026.info/ Follow us for paper deep-dives in the coming weeks. #NLP
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Meetween is part of the organising committee of #IWSLT2026 โ€” the premier conference on spoken language translation. The Shared Task Evaluation Period is open. Working on #speechtranslation, instruction following, or #modelcompression? Get involved now! ๐Ÿ”— iwslt.org/2026
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Our paper on connecting Speech Foundation Models with LLMs is featured in the SpeechLMM Training Journal on Weights & Biases. Read it ๐Ÿ‘‰ bit.ly/4svG7ll SpeechLMM 2.0 coming this summer. ๐Ÿ‘€ #Meetween #SpeechLMM #AI #NLP
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Two people. Two languages. One conversation!ย  No delays. No switching languages. No one is left out. This is what we are building. #SpeechAI #MultilingualAI #HorizonEurope
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Meetween Butler enables real-time speech-to-speech translation while preserving voice and tone, plus automatic notes and smart summaries. Built on ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง-๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐œ๐ฒ-๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž and ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง. #Meetween #ResponsibleAI
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๐Ÿ“ข Postdoc Opening in Multimodal AI Iโ€™m looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @itu1773 for our EU-funded @MeetweenEU project. Youโ€™d be working in a collaborative team with kind, smart, and hard-working people. Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.
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#Mumospee Dataset v2 is out. 645,000 hours of multilingual, multimodal meeting data, including 84,000 new audiovisual hours, powering #SpeechLLMs, speech-to-speech translation and vision-based AI. Explore: bit.ly/4qIu8PC #Meetween #SpeechAI #MultilingualAI
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Meetings where language isnโ€™t a barrier and no insights are missed. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ฒ #๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง will ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž, ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ, and ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž, all within your video calls. Clearer focus. Better conversations.
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The Meetween consortium met in Rome for a two-day in-person session hosted by @Translation and @picampusschool. Partners aligned on SpeechLMM progress, roadmap, ethics and next steps toward open, trustworthy speech foundation models. #Meetween #EuropeanAI #OpenSourceAI
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Two years in, Meetween is transforming how we meet. โœ… SpeechLMM v1 released โœ… 560k hrs of multilingual speech shared โœ… Global AI benchmarks ethical design โœ… Built with real users The future of meetings is here, and it's inclusive. #Meetween #AIForGood
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Online meetings connect people. They also add friction. Language. Time zones. Tools. Meetween is an EU-funded project exploring how AI can support natural and inclusive online collaboration. People first. Real conversations. Discover more: bit.ly/Meetween #Meetween #AI
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IMTalker: Efficient Audio-driven Talking Face Generation with Implicit Motion Transfer TLDR: A motion transfer model, similar to LivePortrait, which replaces the typical warping paradigm with a cross attention model that implicitly learns motion. ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Project Page: cbsjtu01.github.io/IMTalker/ ๐Ÿ“œ Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22167 ๐Ÿ’ป Code: github.com/cbsjtu01/IMTalker
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๐Ÿ”Š Meet FAMA: a ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English Speech Foundation Model, built in the MEETWEEN project under the #OpenScience framework! ๐Ÿ‘‰ Check it out: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22759

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๐Ÿš€ Excited to present FAMA, the first large-scale #OpenScience #Speech foundation model for ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian & ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English, at #clicit2025 (17:30โ€“18:45 oral session)! ๐Ÿ”— Models: hf.co/collections/FBK-MT/famโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“Š Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK-MT/fama-dโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ’ป Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-fairseโ€ฆ #SpeechTech
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Weekly pick from the #MeetweenScientificWatch: Overtrained language models are harder to fine-tune โ€” This study reveals how longer pretraining can harm downstream adaptability, introducing "catastrophic overtraining" as a real risk. ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ“‰ arxiv.org/abs/2503.19206
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๐Ÿ“ข The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at @iwslt 2025 just started! ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system! The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the @MeetweenEU project! โžก๏ธ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfrโ€ฆ

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Weekly pick from the #MeetweenScientificWatch: โ€œThe Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clustersโ€ โ€“ A deep dive into scaling LLM training from 1 to 1000 GPUs, demystifying parallelism techniques with practical examples. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ“– huggingface.co/spaces/nanotrโ€ฆ
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