Do you have a fully reviewed ARR paper related to speech translation that you'd like to commit to IWSLT 2025?

IWSLT has enabled paper commitment for fully reviewed papers from ARR for 2025.
If you'd like to commit your paper, please fill out this form by *May 17th, 2025*:

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🗓️ Deadline update 🗓️

To accommodate requests, we have extended the test period for *all tasks* until *April 19th.*

System description papers are now due *April 24th.*

Thank you and good luck to all participants!!

The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks!

The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! ⏰

Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳

✨ IWSLT paper submission deadline update ✨

Paper submission deadline:
🗓️ March 22, 2025
🔗 SoftConf portal: softconf.com/acl2025/iwsl...

For more details, see: iwslt.org/2025/#paper-...

Call for Demos 🗣️🤖💻

For 2025, we invite interactive system demonstrations for a session highlighting innovative systems, tools, and component technologies that advance the field of speech translation.

For more info, see our call below!

🗓️: Deadline Apr 25
🔗: iwslt.org/2025/call-fo...

Our last task: Subtitling!!

🎯 Goal: The IWSLT 2025 Subtitling Track challenges participants to generate accurate Arabic & German subtitles for English audiovisual recordings, bridging language gaps in media! 🌍📺
#AI #SpeechTech #Subtitling #IWSLT2025

🔗: iwslt.org/2025/subtitl...

Our final task highlight: Indic speech translation!

🎯 Goal: develop a speech-to-text translation model that bridges the gap for low-resource Indian languages, focusing on Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil from the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian families.

🔗: iwslt.org/2025/indic

Today's task: Low-resource ST!

🎯 Goal: Building speech translation models for currently underserved, mostly low-resource languages and varieties

🗓️ This is the 5th iteration, with new and continuing language pairs (10 total!)

🔗: iwslt.org/2025/low-res...

Today's task is an IWSLT mainstay: Offline ST!

🎯 Goal – Provide a stable & shared evaluation framework to track advances in Spoken Language Translation from English into multiple languages & domains. 🌍🎙️

#AI #SpeechTech #SpeechTranslation #IWSLT2025

Next up: simultaneous speech translation!

🎯 Goal: to explore ways to translate speech into another language like simultaneous interpreting.

🔗 Link: iwslt.org/2025/simulta...

Today's task: model compression!!
🆕 New at IWSLT! But no less exciting 🔥

🎯 Goal: Compress a large, general-purpose multimodal model, making speech translation more efficient ⚡️, deployable 📲, and sustainable ♻️, while preserving translation quality ⭐️
#AI #SpeechTech #ModelCompression #LLMcompression

First up, a new task for 2025:
*Instruction-following for speech processing!*

Explore instruction-following for speech ⇨
Integrate speech foundation models with LLMs across tasks such as speech translation, recognition, summarization, and QA.

🔗: iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

We are pleased to announce that our 2025 shared tasks have launched! Find details and data on our website, with evaluation data to be released April 1!
iwslt.org/2025/#shared...

We will be highlighting one task per day here and the other site. Join us for an exciting year of speech translation!!