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.
Ann's Publications
December 16, 2025
SPEECH & AUDIO
COMPUTER VISION
SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio
Yi-Chiao Wu, Julius Richter, Andros Tjandra, Ann Lee, Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Helin Wang, John Hoffman, Luya Gao, Matt Le, Piotr Dollar, Sanyuan Chen, Wei-Ning Hsu
December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025
SPEECH & AUDIO
COMPUTER VISION
Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence Learning
Heng-Jui Chang, Cheng-Fu Yang, Julius Richter, Ann Lee, Apoorv Vyas, Bernie Huang, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Luya Gao, Matt Le, Piotr Dollar, Sanyuan Chen, Wei-Ning Hsu
December 16, 2025
February 07, 2025
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
Meta Audiobox Aesthetics: Unified Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech, Music, and Sound
Andros Tjandra, Ann Lee, Apoorv Vyas, Baishan Guo, Bowen Shi, Brian Ellis, Carleigh Wood, John Hoffman, Matt Le, Nick Zacharov, Sanyuan Chen, Wei-Ning Hsu, Yi-Chiao Wu
February 07, 2025
June 25, 2024
SPEECH & AUDIO
NLP
Textless Acoustic Model with Self-Supervised Distillation for Noise-Robust Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation
Min-Jae Hwang, Ann Lee, Benjamin Peloquin, Hongyu Gong, Ilia Kulikov, Peng-Jen Chen
June 25, 2024
November 30, 2023
SPEECH & AUDIO
NLP
Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation
Seamless Communication, Elahe Kalbassi, Xutai Ma, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Alexandre Mourachko, Alice Rakotoarison, Amanda Kallet, Yu-An Chung, Ann Lee, Anna Sun, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Benjamin Peloquin, Bokai Yu, Brian Ellis, Can Balioglu, Carleigh Wood, Changhan Wang, Christophe Ropers, Christophe Touret, Christopher Klaiber, Corinne Wong, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Licht, David Dale, Ethan Ye, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Guillaume Wenzek, Hady Elsahar, Hirofumi Inaguma, Holger Schwenk, Hongyu Gong, Ilia Kulikov, Ivan Evtimov, Jean Maillard, Jeff Wang, John Hoffman, Juan Pino, Justin Haaheim, Justine Kao, Prangthip Hansanti, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Kevin Heffernan, Loïc Barrault, Maha Elbayad, Mariano Coria Meglioli, Mark Duppenthaler, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Mary Williamson, Min-Jae Hwang, Ning Dong, Francisco Guzmán, Paden Tomasello, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Peng-Jen Chen, Pengwei Li, Pierre Andrews, Pierre Fernandez, Robin San Roman, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Safiyyah Saleem, Skyler Wang, Somya Jain, Sravya Popuri, Tuan Tran, Yilin Yang
November 30, 2023
August 22, 2023
SPEECH & AUDIO
NLP
SeamlessM4T—Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation
Seamless Communication, Safiyyah Saleem, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Alexandre Mourachko, Alice Rakotoarison, Amanda Kallet, Andy Chung, Ann Lee, Anna Sun, Bapi Akula, Benjamin Peloquin, Bernie Huang, Bokai Yu, Brian Ellis, Can Balioglu, Carleigh Wood, Changhan Wang, Christophe Ropers, Christopher Klaiber, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Li (FAIR), Daniel Licht, David Dale, Elahe Kalbassi, Ethan Ye, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Guillaume Wenzek, Hady Elsahar, Hirofumi Inaguma, Holger Schwenk, Hongyu Gong, Igor Tufanov, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lam, Jean Maillard, Jeff Wang (PM - AI), John Hoffman, Juan Pino, Justin Haaheim, Justine Kao, Prangthip Hasanti, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Kevin Heffernan, Kevin Tran, Loic Barrault, Maha Elbayad, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Mohamed Ramadan, Naji El Hachem, Ning Dong (AI), Onur Çelebi, Paco Guzmán, Paden Tomasello, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Peng-Jen Chen, Pengwei Li, Pierre Andrews, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Russ Howes, Skyler Wang, Somya Jain, Sravya Popuri, Tuan Tran, Vish Vogeti, Xutai Ma, Yilin Yang
August 22, 2023
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
June 20, 2022
April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
September 13, 2019
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition with Time-Depth Separable Convolutions
Awni Hannun, Ann Lee, Qiantong Xu, Ronan Collobert
September 13, 2019
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