📌 The Universitat Politècnica de València’s VRAIN-MLLP consolidate their position as leaders in live automatic subtitling for TV with their first place at the IberSpeech-RTVE 2020 Challenge 📌

Posted on May 7, 2021

The MLLP research group of VRAIN-Universitat Politècnica de València have obtained the first place in the IberSpeech-RTVE 2020 TV Speech-to-Text Challenge, repeating their 2018 victory. This consolidates UPV-VRAIN-MLLP technology as the best in Spain and among the best in the world for live automatic subtitling of TV and broadcast contents.

The MLLP research group will lead a new project on live automatic subtitling for Valencian public broadcaster À Punt

Posted on October 6, 2020

Public broadcaster Corporació Valenciana de Mitjans de Comunicació (À Punt) signed today an agreement with the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) for the development and deployment of live automatic subtitling technology in À Punt’s programmes, to be led by the MLLP research group of VRAIN Institut Valencià d’Intel·ligència Artificial.

EMNLP 2020: MLLP article on “Direct Segmentation Models for Streaming Speech Translation” accepted for publication

Posted on September 18, 2020

The article “Direct Segmentation Models for Streaming Speech Translation”, by Javier Iranzo and other MLLP researchers, has been accepted for publication at the ACL’s EMNLP 2020 conference (CORE A).

MLLP researchers release version 1.1 of Europarl-ST, a large multilingual Speech Translation corpus of parliamentary debates

Posted on September 16, 2020

We are happy to report the release by MLLP researchers of version 1.1 of the Europarl-ST corpus, a large multilingual corpus for Speech Translation based on European Parliament debates, consisting of audio-transcription-translation triplets.