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How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?
Sara Papi, Peter Polak, Ondřej Bojar +1
Simultaneous speech-to-text translation (SimulST) translates source-language speech into target-language text concurrently with the speaker's speech, ensuring low latency for bette…
Findings of the IWSLT 2024 Evaluation Campaign
Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ondřej Bojar +42
This paper reports on the shared tasks organized by the 21st IWSLT Conference. The shared tasks address 7 scientific challenges in spoken language translation: simultaneous and off…
What the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered Study
Beatrice Savoldi, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri +2
Gender bias in machine translation (MT) is recognized as an issue that can harm people and society. And yet, advancements in the field rarely involve people, the final MT users, or…
MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on EU Languages
Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Luisa Bentivogli +6
The rise of foundation models (FMs), coupled with regulatory efforts addressing their risks and impacts, has sparked significant interest in open-source models. However, existing s…
How to Connect Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models? What Matters and What Does Not
Francesco Verdini, Pierfrancesco Melucci, Stefano Perna +9
The remarkable performance achieved by Large Language Models (LLM) has driven research efforts to leverage them for a wide range of tasks and input modalities. In speech-to-text (S…
SimulSeamless: FBK at IWSLT 2024 Simultaneous Speech Translation
Sara Papi, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri +1
This paper describes the FBK's participation in the Simultaneous Translation Evaluation Campaign at IWSLT 2024. For this year's submission in the speech-to-text translation (ST) su…
SBAAM! Eliminating Transcript Dependency in Automatic Subtitling
Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri +2
Subtitling plays a crucial role in enhancing the accessibility of audiovisual content and encompasses three primary subtasks: translating spoken dialogue, segmenting translations i…
How do Hyenas deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with ConfHyena
Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri +1
The attention mechanism, a cornerstone of state-of-the-art neural models, faces computational hurdles in processing long sequences due to its quadratic complexity. Consequently, re…
Speech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?
Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri +1
The field of natural language processing (NLP) has recently witnessed a transformative shift with the emergence of foundation models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) that…