Sayan Das
2025
IWSLT 2025 Indic Track System Description Paper: Speech-to-Text Translation from Low-Resource Indian Languages (Bengali and Tamil) to English
Sayan Das
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Soham Chaudhuri
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Dipanjan Saha
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Dipankar Das
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Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025)
Multi-language Speech-to-Text Translation (ST) plays a crucial role in breaking linguistic barriers, particularly in multilingual regions like India. This paper focuses on building a robust ST system for low resource Indian languages, with a special emphasis on Bengali and Tamil. These languages represent the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian families, respectively. The dataset used in this work comprises spoken content from TED Talks and conferences, paired with transcriptions in English and their translations in Bengali and Tamil. Our work specifically addresses the translation of Bengali and Tamil speech to English text, a critical area given the scarcity of annotated speech data. To enhance translation quality and model robustness, we leverage cross-lingual resources and word level translation strategies. The ultimate goal is to develop an end-to-end ST model capable of real-world deployment for under represented languages.