Ann Lee

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES

Ann is a Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), focusing on speech recognition. She earned a Ph.D. at MIT's Spoken Language Systems group, where she worked on computer-assisted pronunciation training and mispronunciation detection in non-native speech.

Research Areas

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Speech & Audio

Ann's Publications

June 25, 2024

SPEECH & AUDIO

NLP

Textless Acoustic Model with Self-Supervised Distillation for Noise-Robust Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation

Min-Jae Hwang, Ilia Kulikov, Benjamin Peloquin, Hongyu Gong, Peng-Jen Chen, Ann Lee

June 25, 2024

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November 30, 2023

SPEECH & AUDIO

NLP

Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation

Seamless Communication, Loïc Barrault, Yu-An Chung, Mariano Coria Meglioli, David Dale, Ning Dong, Mark Duppenthaler, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Brian Ellis, Hady Elsahar, Justin Haaheim, John Hoffman, Min-Jae Hwang, Hirofumi Inaguma, Christopher Klaiber, Ilia Kulikov, Pengwei Li, Daniel Licht, Jean Maillard, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Alice Rakotoarison, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Tuan Tran, Guillaume Wenzek, Yilin Yang, Ethan Ye, Ivan Evtimov, Pierre Fernandez, Cynthia Gao, Prangthip Hansanti, Elahe Kalbassi, Amanda Kallet, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Robin San Roman, Christophe Touret, Corinne Wong, Carleigh Wood, Bokai Yu, Pierre Andrews, Can Balioglu, Peng-Jen Chen, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Maha Elbayad, Hongyu Gong, Francisco Guzmán, Kevin Heffernan, Somya Jain, Justine Kao, Ann Lee, Xutai Ma, Alexandre Mourachko, Benjamin Peloquin, Juan Pino, Sravya Popuri, Christophe Ropers, Safiyyah Saleem, Holger Schwenk, Anna Sun, Paden Tomasello, Changhan Wang, Jeff Wang, Skyler Wang, Mary Williamson

November 30, 2023

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August 22, 2023

SPEECH & AUDIO

NLP

SeamlessM4T—Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation

Seamless Communication, Loic Barrault, Andy Chung, David Dale, Ning Dong (AI), Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Hady Elsahar, Hongyu Gong, Kevin Heffernan, John Hoffman, Christopher Klaiber, Peng-Jen Chen, Daniel Licht, Jean Maillard, Alice Rakotoarison, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Guillaume Wenzek, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Alexandre Mourachko, Amanda Kallet, Ann Lee, Anna Sun, Bapi Akula, Benjamin Peloquin, Bernie Huang, Bokai Yu, Brian Ellis, Can Balioglu, Carleigh Wood, Changhan Wang, Christophe Ropers, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Li (FAIR), Elahe Kalbassi, Ethan Ye, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Hirofumi Inaguma, Holger Schwenk, Igor Tufanov, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lam, Jeff Wang (PM - AI), Juan Pino, Justin Haaheim, Justine Kao, Prangthip Hasanti, Kevin Tran, Maha Elbayad, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Mohamed Ramadan, Naji El Hachem, Onur Çelebi, Paco Guzmán, Paden Tomasello, Pengwei Li, Pierre Andrews, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Russ Howes, Safiyyah Saleem, Skyler Wang, Somya Jain, Sravya Popuri, Tuan Tran, Vish Vogeti, Xutai Ma, Yilin Yang

August 22, 2023

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June 20, 2022

Flashlight: Enabling Innovation in Tools for Machine Learning

Jacob Kahn, Ann Lee, Benoit Steiner, Edouard Grave, Gabriel Synnaeve, Gilad Avidov, Paden Tomasello, Qiantong Xu, Ronan Collobert, Vineel Pratap, Vitaliy Liptchinksy, Awni Hannun, Jeff Cai, Tatiana Likhomanenko