Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) https://iwslt.org/is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented.

IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. 2024 will mark IWSLT’s 21st edition.

There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new application scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite *proposals for shared tasks. *For more details about this initiative, please refer to https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2024-Call_for_Tasks.pdf

If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2024-Call_for_Tasks.pdfand *send it to https://groups.google.com/*iwslt-organizers@googlegroups.com * by August 31st, 2023.*

Best, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul IWSLT Organisers