The MLLP’s candidature to European Parliament call for tenders EP/TRAD/2019/LSTT “Live Speech to Text and Machine Translation Tool for 24 Languages” obtained a strong rating and was ranked sixth, close to the five shortlisted candidatures by large EU and US tech consortia and organizations.
The articles “Europarl-ST: A Multilingual Corpus for Speech Translation of Parliamentary Debates” and “LSTM-Based One-Pass Decoder for Low-Latency Streaming“, by Javier Iranzo, Javier Jorge and other MLLP researchers, have been accepted for publication at the IEEE’s ICASSP 2020 conference.
On 15–17 January, representatives from all X5gon partners met in Maribor (Slovenia) to discuss progress and future plans for this EU project on technologies for OER.
Former MLLP member Miguel Á. del Agua Teba defended successfully today his PhD thesis on “Contributions to Efficient Automatic Transcription of Video Lectures” at the Universitat Politècnica de València.
