Simulstream: Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluation and Demonstration of Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation Systems
cs.CL
Submitted: 2025-12-19
Updated: 2026-08-31
Comments: Accepted to EMNLP demo 2026
Code: https://github.com/hlt-mt/simulstream
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation (StreamST) requires producing translations concurrently with incoming speech under strict latency constraints, demanding models that balance low latency with high
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Abstract
Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation (StreamST) requires producing translations concurrently with incoming speech under strict latency constraints, demanding models that balance low latency with high translation quality. Despite rapid progress, evaluation remains fragmented across existing frameworks, which make different assumptions about how systems operate - for example, whether they process continuous speech or short pre-segmented audio, and whether they support output revision (retranslation) or not (incremental). For instance, SimulEval, the most widely used framework, supports only incremental decoding, assumes short segmented inputs, and lacks a native support for system demonstrations. As a result, comparing systems fairly and consistently across studies remains challenging, with no unified solution for benchmarking and interactive demonstration. To address this gap, we introduce simulstream, the first open-source framework for StreamST evaluation and demonstration. It supports both incremental and re-translation decoding on long-form speech, provides fine-grained logging for quality and latency evaluation, and includes an interactive web interface for real-time visualization and comparison.
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- SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation
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