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V{\'a}squez Correa, Juan Camilo and
Montserrat, Oscar and
Echevarr{\'i}a, Jos{\'e} Maria and
Arrate, Bego{\~n}a and
Zapirain, Joxean and
deVelasco V{\'a}zquez, Mikel and
Moreno-Acevedo, Santiago Andr{\'e}s and
Gonz{\'a}lez-Docasal, Ander and
Torres, Maria Ines and
{\'A}lvarez, Aitor",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Multilingual Speech-Based Driver Assistant for Basque and English
%A Aparicio Akcharov, Antonio
%A López Zorrilla, Asier
%A Vásquez Correa, Juan Camilo
%A Montserrat, Oscar
%A Echevarría, José Maria
%A Arrate, Begoña
%A Zapirain, Joxean
%A deVelasco Vázquez, Mikel
%A Moreno-Acevedo, Santiago Andrés
%A González-Docasal, Ander
%A Torres, Maria Ines
%A Álvarez, Aitor
%Y Torres, Maria Ines
%Y Matsuda, Yuki
%Y Callejas, Zoraida
%Y del Pozo, Arantza
%Y D’Haro, Luis Fernando
%S Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
%D 2025
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bilbao, Spain
%@ 979-8-89176-248-0
%F aparicio-akcharov-etal-2025-multilingual
%X This demo paper presents a prototype of a multilingual, speech-based driver assistant, designed to support both English and Basque languages. The inclusion of Basque—a low-resource language with limited domain-specific training data—marks a significant contribution, as publicly available AI models, including Large Language Models, often underperform for such languages compared to high-resource languages like English. Despite these challenges, our system demonstrates robust performance, successfully understanding user queries and delivering rapid responses in a demanding environment: a car simulator. Notably, the system achieves comparable performance in both English and Basque, showcasing its effectiveness in addressing linguistic disparities in AI-driven applications. A demo of our prototype will be available in the workshop.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwsds-1.19/
%P 190-195
Markdown (Informal)
[A Multilingual Speech-Based Driver Assistant for Basque and English](https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwsds-1.19/) (Aparicio Akcharov et al., IWSDS 2025)
ACL
- Antonio Aparicio Akcharov, Asier López Zorrilla, Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa, Oscar Montserrat, José Maria Echevarría, Begoña Arrate, Joxean Zapirain, Mikel deVelasco Vázquez, Santiago Andrés Moreno-Acevedo, Ander González-Docasal, Maria Ines Torres, and Aitor Álvarez. 2025. A Multilingual Speech-Based Driver Assistant for Basque and English. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, pages 190–195, Bilbao, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.