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We present the findings of the LoResMT 2021 shared task which focuses on machine translation (MT) of COVID-19 data for both low-resource spoken and sign languages. The organization of this task was conducted as part of the fourth workshop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Atul Kr. Ojha , Chao-Hong Liu , Katharina Kann , John Ortega , Sheetal Shatam , Theodorus Fransen

This paper presents HITSZ's submission for the IWSLT 2025 Indic track, focusing on speech-to-text translation (ST) for English-to-Indic and Indic-to-English language pairs. To enhance translation quality in this low-resource scenario, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xuchen Wei , Yangxin Wu , Yaoyin Zhang , Henglyu Liu , Kehai Chen , Xuefeng Bai , Min Zhang

This paper describes the submission of our end-to-end YiTrans speech translation system for the IWSLT 2022 offline task, which translates from English audio to German, Chinese, and Japanese. The YiTrans system is built on large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Ziqiang Zhang , Junyi Ao , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Furu Wei , Jinyu Li

Speech Translation (ST) is a machine translation task that involves converting speech signals from one language to the corresponding text in another language; this task has two different approaches, namely the traditional cascade and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nam Luu , Ondřej Bojar

Machine Translation System (MTS) serves as an effective tool for communication by translating text or speech from one language to another language. The need of an efficient translation system becomes obvious in a large multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sudhansu Bala Das , Atharv Biradar , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Bidyut Kumar Patra

Conventional spoken language translation (SLT) systems are pipeline based systems, where we have an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to convert the modality of source from speech to text and a Machine Translation (MT) systems to…

This paper describes the ESPnet-ST group's IWSLT 2021 submission in the offline speech translation track. This year we made various efforts on training data, architecture, and audio segmentation. On the data side, we investigated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Hirofumi Inaguma , Brian Yan , Siddharth Dalmia , Pengcheng Guo , Jiatong Shi , Kevin Duh , Shinji Watanabe

This paper describes our system submission to the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025), low-resource languages track, namely for Bemba-to-English speech translation. We built cascaded speech translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Muhammad Hazim Al Farouq , Aman Kassahun Wassie , Yasmin Moslem

This paper describes the NPU-MSXF system for the IWSLT 2023 speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) task which aims to translate from English speech of multi-source to Chinese speech. The system is built in a cascaded manner consisting of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kun Song , Yi lei , Peikun Chen , Yiqing Cao , Kun Wei , Yongmao Zhang , Lei Xie , Ning Jiang , Guoqing Zhao

This paper presents CMU's submission to the IWSLT 2025 Simultaneous Speech Translation (SST) task for translating unsegmented English speech into Chinese and German text in a streaming manner. Our end-to-end speech-to-text system integrates…

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If today some African languages like Swahili have enough resources to develop high-performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems, many other languages spoken on the continent are still lacking such support. For these languages, still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Naira Abdou Mohamed , Zakarya Erraji , Abdessalam Bahafid , Imade Benelallam

Transfer learning from high-resource languages is known to be an efficient way to improve end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages. Pre-trained or jointly trained encoder-decoder models, however, do not share…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu

The scope of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) has recently broadened beyond traditional Speech Translation (ST) to encompass a wider array of tasks, including Speech Question Answering and Summarization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sai Koneru , Maike Züfle , Thai-Binh Nguyen , Seymanur Akti , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

This paper is an ELITR system submission for the non-native speech translation task at IWSLT 2020. We describe systems for offline ASR, real-time ASR, and our cascaded approach to offline SLT and real-time SLT. We select our primary…

In this paper we present the ADAPT system built for the Basque to English Low Resource MT Evaluation Campaign. Basque is a low-resourced, morphologically-rich language. This poses a challenge for Neural Machine Translation models which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Alberto Poncelas , Andy Way , Kepa Sarasola

In this paper we describe our efforts to make a bidirectional Congolese Swahili (SWC) to French (FRA) neural machine translation system with the motivation of improving humanitarian translation workflows. For training, we created a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Alp Öktem , Eric DeLuca , Rodrigue Bashizi , Eric Paquin , Grace Tang

Machine Translation (MT) system generally aims at automatic representation of source language into target language retaining the originality of context using various Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Among various NLP methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sudhansu Bala Das , Divyajoti Panda , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Bidyut Kr. Patra

This paper describes the submission of the NiuTrans end-to-end speech translation system for the IWSLT 2021 offline task, which translates from the English audio to German text directly without intermediate transcription. We use the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Chen Xu , Xiaoqian Liu , Xiaowen Liu , Laohu Wang , Canan Huang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

This paper describes NAIST's submission to the simultaneous track of the IWSLT 2024 Evaluation Campaign: English-to-{German, Japanese, Chinese} speech-to-text translation and English-to-Japanese speech-to-speech translation. We develop a…

This paper presents the system description of Machine Translation (MT) system(s) for Indic Languages Multilingual Task for the 2018 edition of the WAT Shared Task. In our experiments, we (the RGNLP team) explore both statistical and neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Atul Kr. Ojha , Koel Dutta Chowdhury , Chao-Hong Liu , Karan Saxena