2025
ACL
ACL 2025
Bemba Speech Translation: Exploring a Low-Resource African Language
Abstract
AbstractThis paper describes our system submission to the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025), low-resource languages track, namely for Bemba-to-English speech translation. We built cascaded speech translation systems based on Whisper and NLLB-200, and employed data augmentation techniques, such as back-translation. We investigate the effect of using synthetic data and discuss our experimental setup.
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Interdisciplinary Bridge
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing and Speech & Audio
Topics
Artificial Intelligence > Learning Paradigms > Transfer Learning
Machine Learning > Application Areas > Data Augmentation
Natural Language Processing > Applications > Machine Translation
Machine Learning > Learning Types > Transfer Learning
Deep Learning > Learning Types > Transfer Learning
Speech & Audio > Recognition > Speech Translation