arXiv:2606. 03967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe AlignAtt4LLM, an IWSLT 2026 simultaneous speech translation system for English to German, Italian, and Chinese.
By Quentin Fuxa, Dominik Mach\'a\v{c}ek
arXiv:2606. 17255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work describes the participation of the MLLP-VRAIN research group in the shared task of the IWSLT 2026 Simultaneous Speech Translation track.
By Jorge Iranzo-S\'anchez, Gerard Mas-Moll\`a, Adri\`a Gim\'enez, Jorge Civera, Albert Sanchis, Alfons Juan
arXiv:2607. 06831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-text alignment means finding the temporal boundaries of each word in the audio.
By Albert Zeyer, Ralf Schl\"uter, Hermann Ney
arXiv:2608. 14896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models work well on English and behave in poorly understood ways on languages typologically far from it.
By Florian Braun
arXiv:2606. 24169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting a streaming speech recognition model to a new language requires choosing between two plausible warm starts: a multilingual (ML) encoder or an English-only (EN) encoder.
By Nenad Banfic
arXiv:2608. 04160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual evaluations report accuracy at a single output-token cap, but languages need different numbers of tokens to express the same content, so the cap is a hidden experimental variable.
By Ankit Goyal, Jaideep Ray