Help preserve South American indigenous languages through speech technology!
*== QUECHUA-SPANISH SPEECH TRANSLATION SHARED TASK — IWSLT 2026 ==* We are excited to announce the 2026 edition of the Quechua-to-Spanish (QUE-SPA) speech translation shared task, part of the Low-Resource Speech Translation track at IWSLT 2026. The conference will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA on July 3–4, 2026. Quechua is spoken by more than 8 million people across Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, yet remains one of the most underrepresented languages in speech technology. Building on the success of previous workshops (LoResMT, AmericasNLP, and prior IWSLT editions), we continue our effort to push the state of the art in low-resource speech translation. We welcome all approaches: neural, statistical, rule-based, end-to-end, cascaded, and more! *★ IMPORTANT LINKS ★* - Task webpage: https://iwslt.org/2026/low-resource - Dataset: https://github.com/johneortega/IWSLT2026_Quechua_data - Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign - IWSLT 2026 conference: https://iwslt.org/2026 *★ HOW TO PARTICIPATE ★* 1. Join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign 2. Download the QUE-SPA dataset: https://github.com/johneortega/IWSLT2026_Quechua_data 3. Build your system and submit results during the evaluation period 4. Submit your system description paper Submissions can be uploaded to GitHub or emailed directly to the organizers. *★ IMPORTANT DATES ★* - Apr 1–15, 2026 – Evaluation period - Apr 24, 2026 – System paper submission deadline - May 15, 2026 – Notification of acceptance - Jun 1, 2026 – Camera-ready deadline - Jul 3–4, 2026 – IWSLT conference (San Diego, CA, USA) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00. *★ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (QUE-SPA & Catalan) ★* - John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) — [email protected] - Rodolfo Zevallos (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) — [email protected] - Fabrício Carraro (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) — [email protected] - Stephanny Sánchez (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería) — [email protected] For questions about datasets or the task, please contact the organizers above or the general IWSLT discussion list: [email protected] We look forward to your participation! Best regards, The QUE-SPA Organizing Team
