| Challenge: | Recent advances in automatic quality estimation for machine translation focus on written language, leaving the speech modality underexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a new quality estimation system based on cascaded and end-to-end architectures. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is better suited to estimating the quality of direct speech translation than existing systems designed for text translation. |
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