@inproceedings{nazeem-etal-2026-foundational, title = "A Foundational Study of Multimodal Speech{--}Text Alignment in {M}alayalam", author = "Nazeem, Meharuniza and S, Navaneeth and A S, Adithyakiran and R R, Rajeev and Biju, Ashbi", editor = "Ponnusamy, Rahul and Kumaresan, Prasanna Kumar and Rajiakodi, Saranya and B, Premjith and MC, Shunmuga Priya and Murugappan, Abirami and G, Jyothish Lal and V, Sowmya and Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning in Low-resource Languages", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.mmlow-main.2/", pages = "18--27", ISBN = "979-8-89176-445-3" }