@inproceedings{williams-etal-2023-um,
    title = "{UM}-{DFKI} {M}altese Speech Translation",
    author = {Williams, Aiden  and
      Abela, Kurt  and
      Kumar, Rishu  and
      B{\"a}r, Martin  and
      Billinghurst, Hannah  and
      Micallef, Kurt  and
      Mozib Samin, Ahnaf  and
      DeMarco, Andrea  and
      van der Plas, Lonneke  and
      Borg, Claudia},
    editor = "Salesky, Elizabeth  and
      Federico, Marcello  and
      Carpuat, Marine",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada (in-person and online)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.iwslt-1.41",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.iwslt-1.41",
    pages = "433--441",
    abstract = "For the 2023 IWSLT Maltese Speech Translation Task, UM-DFKI jointly presents a cascade solution which achieves 0.6 BLEU. While this is the first time that a Maltese speech translation task has been released by IWSLT, this paper explores previous solutions for other speech translation tasks, focusing primarily on low-resource scenarios. Moreover, we present our method of fine-tuning XLS-R models for Maltese ASR using a collection of multi-lingual speech corpora as well as the fine-tuning of the mBART model for Maltese to English machine translation.",
}

For the 2023 IWSLT Maltese Speech Translation Task, UM-DFKI jointly presents a cascade solution which achieves 0.6 BLEU. While this is the first time that a Maltese speech translation task has been released by IWSLT, this paper explores previous solutions for other speech translation tasks, focusing primarily on low-resource scenarios. Moreover, we present our method of fine-tuning XLS-R models for Maltese ASR using a collection of multi-lingual speech corpora as well as the fine-tuning of the mBART model for Maltese to English machine translation.
Williams, Aiden Abela, Kurt Kumar, Rishu B{\"a}r, Martin Billinghurst, Hannah Micallef, Kurt Mozib Samin, Ahnaf DeMarco, Andrea van der Plas, Lonneke Borg, Claudia
UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation