Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation Web Application for Estonian

Bohdan Podziubanchuk, Aivo Olev, Jiaming Kong, Tanel Alumäe


Abstract
This paper presents a new open-source web application for simultaneous speech-to-text translation. The system translates live Estonian speech into English, Russian, and Ukrainian text, and also supports English-to-Estonian translation. Our solution uses a cascaded architecture that combines streaming speech recognition with a recently proposed LLM-based simultaneous translation model. The LLM treats translation as a conversation, processing input in small five-word chunks. Our streaming speech recognition achieves a word error rate of 10.2% and a BLEU score of 26.1 for Estonian-to-English, significantly outperforming existing streaming solutions. The application is designed for real-world use, featuring a latency of only 3 - 6 seconds. The application is available at https://est2eng.vercel.app.
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2026.eacl-demo.40
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Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
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March
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2026
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Rabat, Marocco
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Danilo Croce, Jochen Leidner, Nafise Sadat Moosavi
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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575–582
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Bohdan Podziubanchuk, Aivo Olev, Jiaming Kong, and Tanel Alumäe. 2026. Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation Web Application for Estonian. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 575–582, Rabat, Marocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation Web Application for Estonian (Podziubanchuk et al., EACL 2026)
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