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Ouvia: A User-centered Framework for Measuring Usability of Speech Translation in Real-World Communication Scenarios
Giuseppe Attanasio, Beatrice Savoldi, Daniel Chechelnitsky +4
Speech translation (ST) is increasingly adopted in user applications, yet its evaluation largely focuses on decontextualized testbeds and holistic quality, rather than end users' c…
SEQUOR: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Realistic Constraint Following
Beatriz Canaverde, Duarte M. Alves, José Pombal +2
In a conversation, a helpful assistant must reliably follow user directives, even as they refine, modify, or contradict earlier requests. Yet most instruction-following benchmarks…
Instituto de Telecomunicações at IWSLT 2025: Aligning Small-Scale Speech and Language Models for Speech-to-Text Learning
Giuseppe Attanasio, Sonal Sannigrahi, Ben Peters +1
This paper presents the IT-IST submission to the IWSLT 2025 Shared Task on Instruction Following Speech Processing. We submit results for the Short Track, i.e., speech recognition,…
Different Speech Translation Models Encode and Translate Speaker Gender Differently
Dennis Fucci, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri +3
Recent studies on interpreting the hidden states of speech models have shown their ability to capture speaker-specific features, including gender. Does this finding also hold for s…
Watching the Watchers: Exposing Gender Disparities in Machine Translation Quality Estimation
Emmanouil Zaranis, Giuseppe Attanasio, Sweta Agrawal +1
Quality estimation (QE)-the automatic assessment of translation quality-has recently become crucial across several stages of the translation pipeline, from data curation to trainin…