BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality KIT’s Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion (2026.eacl-demo)
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Sai Koneru, Fabian Retkowski, Christian Huber, Lukas Hilgert, Seymanur Akti, Enes Yavuz Ugan, Alexander Waibel, Jan Niehues
| Challenge: | a multimodal multilingual lecture companion is needed to preserve lecture content in its entirety . globalization of education and rapid growth of online learning have made localizing educational content a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal multilingual lecture companion that translates lecture audio and slides to produce synchronized outputs across three modalities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed solution preserves the original content in its entirety while preserving translations across three modalities. |
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