Mikel deVelasco Vázquez


2025

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A Multilingual Speech-Based Driver Assistant for Basque and English
Antonio Aparicio Akcharov | Asier López Zorrilla | Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa | Oscar Montserrat | José Maria Echevarría | Begoña Arrate | Joxean Zapirain | Mikel deVelasco Vázquez | Santiago Andrés Moreno-Acevedo | Ander González-Docasal | Maria Ines Torres | Aitor Álvarez
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology

This demo paper presents a prototype of a multilingual, speech-based driver assistant, designed to support both English and Basque languages. The inclusion of Basque—a low-resource language with limited domain-specific training data—marks a significant contribution, as publicly available AI models, including Large Language Models, often underperform for such languages compared to high-resource languages like English. Despite these challenges, our system demonstrates robust performance, successfully understanding user queries and delivering rapid responses in a demanding environment: a car simulator. Notably, the system achieves comparable performance in both English and Basque, showcasing its effectiveness in addressing linguistic disparities in AI-driven applications. A demo of our prototype will be available in the workshop.