SLTEV: Comprehensive Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation (2021.eacl-demos)
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| Challenge: | Spoken Language Translation (SLT) evaluation of machine translation (MT) quality has been investigated for decades. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source tool for assessing machine translation (MT) quality based on time-stamped transcripts and reference translations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation tool is based on time-stamped transcripts and reference translations into a target language. |
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