Automatic Labelling of Speech Translation Errors
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Title:Automatic Labelling of Speech Translation Errors
Abstract:Errors in speech translations reduce trustworthiness of Speech Translation (ST) systems and can have serious consequences. Yet currently there is no established methodology for evaluating confidence and quality estimation of speech translations. To initiate progress in this direction, we propose Speech Translation Error Labelling (STEL). We create an annotation protocol, a small authentic end-to-end evaluation dataset, and we analyse how existing text-only and speech-processing systems perform the STEL task. Our results show that text-only XCOMET and multimodal LLM Qwen2.5-Omni are able to perform the STEL task in roughly half the precision of humans. We also find that direct speech processing is necessary for the STEL task, and that the current text-only and speech-processing systems are complementary in labelling translation-only vs. speech-processing errors in ST.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.06047 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.06047v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.06047
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