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address = "Vienna, Austria (in-person and online)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Bemba Speech Translation: Exploring a Low-Resource African Language](https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwslt-1.37/) (Hazim Al Farouq et al., IWSLT 2025)
ACL
- Muhammad Hazim Al Farouq, Aman Kassahun Wassie, and Yasmin Moslem. 2025. Bemba Speech Translation: Exploring a Low-Resource African Language. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025), pages 354–359, Vienna, Austria (in-person and online). Association for Computational Linguistics.