International Conference on Spoken Language Translation

IWSLT 2027

IWSLT is the premier annual scientific conference dedicated to all aspects of spoken language translation.

24th edition · August 17–22, 2027 · Kyoto, Japan
Co-located with ACL.

For more than 20 years running, the conference has published and organized key evaluation campaigns in the field, including the creation of requisite data suites, benchmarks, metrics and key tasks that define progress in the field.

Scientific papers and system descriptions documenting the state-of-the art achieved by participating teams and contributing key algorithmic advances are presented at the conference.

Check out the Shared Tasks hosted at last year’s conference and their Findings!
Tasks for the next edition are posted in January; consider submitting a task proposal.

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IWSLT is the annual meeting of SIGSLT, the ACL-ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation. SIGSLT also organizes periodic lectures on SLT.