Findings of the IWSLT 2024 Evaluation Campaign

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the outcomes of the 2024 IWSLT shared tasks, highlighting advances in spoken language translation across various challenging scenarios and languages, with increased participation from industry and academia.

Contribution

It reports on the organization, participation, and results of multiple spoken language translation challenges, showcasing progress and ongoing research in the field.

Findings

18 teams participated in the shared tasks

26 system papers documented the submissions

Growing interest from industry and academia

Abstract

This paper reports on the shared tasks organized by the 21st IWSLT Conference. The shared tasks address 7 scientific challenges in spoken language translation: simultaneous and offline translation, automatic subtitling and dubbing, speech-to-speech translation, dialect and low-resource speech translation, and Indic languages. The shared tasks attracted 18 teams whose submissions are documented in 26 system papers. The growing interest towards spoken language translation is also witnessed by the constantly increasing number of shared task organizers and contributors to the overview paper, almost evenly distributed across industry and academia.