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Speech-to-SOAP: End-to-End Summarization of Medical Dialogues: KIT@BeTraC 2026
Enes Yavuz Ugan, Fabian Retkowski, Yuka Ko +4
With the advent of Large Language Models and its instruction following capabilities a promising application is the task of summarization. Within this domain of task the extractive…
The Role of Disfluencies in Speech Translation
Maike Züfle, Maria Teleki, Fabian Retkowski +5
Current speech translation systems, including SpeechLLMs, are trained on cleaned text and tend to strip disfluencies like filled pauses and false starts rather than translate them.…
Multilingual Long-Form Speech Instruction Following: KIT's Submission to IWSLT 2026
Enes Yavuz Ugan, Maike Züfle, Yuka Ko +5
With the advent of Large Language Models, single-task and token-based multi-task models have evolved into instruction-based systems that infer task and target language implicitly f…
Do What I Say: A Spoken Prompt Dataset for Instruction-Following
Maike Züfle, Sara Papi, Fabian Retkowski +5
Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) have rapidly expanded, supporting a wide range of tasks. These models are typically evaluated using text prompts, which may not reflect real-wo…
Paragraph Segmentation Revisited: Towards a Standard Task for Structuring Speech
Fabian Retkowski, Alexander Waibel
Automatic speech transcripts are often delivered as unstructured word streams that impede readability and repurposing. We recast paragraph segmentation as the missing structuring s…
BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality KIT's Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion
Sai Koneru, Fabian Retkowski, Christian Huber +5
The globalization of education and rapid growth of online learning have made localizing educational content a critical challenge. Lecture materials are inherently multimodal, combi…