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NAVER LABS Europe's Multilingual Speech Translation Systems for the IWSLT 2023 Low-Resource Track

arXiv 2306.07763 ↗First posted 13 Jun 2023cs.CLcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents NAVER LABS Europe's systems for Tamasheq-French and Quechua-Spanish speech translation in the IWSLT 2023 Low-Resource track. Our work attempts to maximize translation quality in low-resource settings using multilingual parameter-efficient solutions that leverage strong pre-trained models. Our primary submission for Tamasheq outperforms the previous state of the art by 7.5 BLEU points on the IWSLT 2022 test set, and achieves 23.6 BLEU on this year's test set, outperforming the second best participant by 7.7 points. For Quechua, we also rank first and achieve 17.7 BLEU, despite having only two hours of translation data. Finally, we show that our proposed multilingual architecture is also competitive for high-resource languages, outperforming the best unconstrained submission to the IWSLT 2021 Multilingual track, despite using much less training data and compute.

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Citing papers per year: 2023: 2; 2024: 4; 2025: 2; 2026: 1.

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  1. 2023Multilingual DistilWhisper: Efficient Distillation of Multi-task Speech Models via Language-Specific Expertscited by 17
  2. 2024Pushing the Limits of Zero-shot End-to-End Speech Translationcited by 14
  3. 2025From TOWER to SPIRE: Adding the Speech Modality to a Translation-Specialist LLMcited by 8
  4. 2024Transforming LLMs into Cross-modal and Cross-lingual Retrieval Systemscited by 5
  5. 2026SpeechMapper: Speech-to-text Embedding Projector for LLMscited by 4
  6. 2023How To Build Competitive Multi-gender Speech Translation Models For Controlling Speaker Gender Translationcited by 2
  7. 2024Efficient Compression of Multitask Multilingual Speech Modelscited by 2
  8. 2025IIITH-BUT system for IWSLT 2025 low-resource Bhojpuri to Hindi speech translationcited by 1
  9. 2024An Adapter-Based Unified Model for Multiple Spoken Language Processing Taskscited by 0