Peter Polák

Researcher, AppTek

Joined

October 2023

Names

Peter Polák (Preferred)

Emails

****@ufal.mff.cuni.cz (Confirmed)

****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

AppTek (apptek.com)

2024 – Present

Intern

GenAI, Meta (meta.com)

2025 – 2025

PhD student

Charles University Prague (cuni.cz)

2020 – 2024

Intern

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2022 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ondřej Bojar

Present

Coworker

Alex Waibel

Present

Coworker

Jan Niehues

Present

Expertise

speech translation

long-form speech

simultaneous speech translation

2020 – Present

Publications

How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?
Sara Papi, Peter Polák, Dominik Machácek, Ondrej Bojar
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Automated Spoken Language Assessment: A Study of ASR Transcription of Examinations for Non-Native Speakers of Czech
Michal Novák, Peter Polák, Katerina Rysova, Magdaléna Rysová, Ondrej Bojar
- Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Long-Form End-To-End Speech Translation VIA Latent Alignment Segmentation
Peter Polák, Ondrej Bojar
- SLT 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating the IWSLT2023 Speech Translation Tasks: Human Annotations, Automatic Metrics, and Segmentation
Matthias Sperber, Ondrej Bojar, Barry Haddow, Dávid Javorský, Xutai Ma, Matteo Negri, Jan Niehues, Peter Polák, Elizabeth Salesky, Katsuhito Sudoh, Marco Turchi
- LREC/COLING 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Findings of the IWSLT 2024 Evaluation Campaign
Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ondrej Bojar, Claudia Borg, Marine Carpuat, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, William Chen, Qianqian Dong, Marcello Federico, Barry Haddow, Dávid Javorský, Mateusz Krubinski, Tsz Kin Lam, Xutai Ma, Prashant Mathur, Evgeny Matusov, Chandresh Maurya, John P. McCrae, Kenton Murray et al. (25 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?
Sara Papi, Peter Polak, Ondrej Bojar, Dominik Machácek
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Incremental Blockwise Beam Search for Simultaneous Speech Translation with Controllable Quality-Latency Tradeoff
Peter Polák, Brian Yan, Shinji Watanabe, Alex Waibel, Ondrej Bojar
- INTERSPEECH 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Efficient Simultaneous Speech Translation: CUNI-KIT System for Simultaneous Track at IWSLT 2023
Peter Polak, Danni Liu, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel, Ondrej Bojar
- IWSLT@ACL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Dive Speech Technology
Marcin Skowron, Gerhard Backfried, Eva Navas, Aivars Berzins, Joachim Van den Bogaert, Franciska de Jong, Andrea DeMarco, Inma Hernáez, Marek Kovác, Peter Polák, Johan Rohdin, Michael Rosner, Jon Sánchez, Ibon Saratxaga, Petr Schwarz
- European Language Equality 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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