Victor Agostinelli III


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2025

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BeaverTalk: Oregon State University’s IWSLT 2025 Simultaneous Speech Translation System
Matthew Raffel | Victor Agostinelli III | Lizhong Chen
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025)

This paper discusses the construction, fine-tuning, and deployment of BeaverTalk, a cascaded system for speech-to-text translation as part of the IWSLT 2025 simultaneous translation task. The system architecture employs a VAD segmenter for breaking a speech stream into segments, Whisper Large V2 for automatic speech recognition (ASR), and Gemma 3 12B for simultaneous translation. Regarding the simultaneous translation LLM, it is fine-tuned via low-rank adaptors (LoRAs) for a conversational prompting strategy that leverages a single prior-sentence memory bank from the source language as context. The cascaded system participated in the English-German and English-Chinese language directions for both the low and high latency regimes. In particular, on the English-German task, the system achieves a BLEU of 24.64 and 27.83 at a StreamLAAL of 1837.86 and 3343.73, respectively. Then, on the English-Chinese task, the system achieves a BLEU of 34.07 and 37.23 at a StreamLAAL of 2216.99 and 3521.35, respectively.