Mikel Segura Elizalde
2026
Mapudungun-Spanish Speech Translation: A Low-Resource End-to-End System for the IWSLT 2026 Shared Task
Diego Alberto Barriga Martínez | Amilkar Gazque | Mikel Segura Elizalde | Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena | Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques | Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2026)
Diego Alberto Barriga Martínez | Amilkar Gazque | Mikel Segura Elizalde | Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena | Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques | Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2026)
We present an end-to-end speech translation system for Mapudungun–Spanish developed for the IWSLT 2026 low-resource task. Building on the Canary-1B-v2 model, we apply parameter-efficient fine-tuning with a lightweight adapter and leverage an English-centered configuration as a proxy to enable translation. Experiments show that the system captures key phonetic patterns despite limited data, though it exhibits biases toward repetitive Spanish outputs. Our results highlight both the feasibility and the challenges of adapting multilingual foundation models to low-resource Indigenous languages.