End-to-End Automatic Speech Translation of Audiobooks

Alexandre Berard; Laurent Besacier; Ali Can Kocabiyikoglu; Olivier Pietquin

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End-to-End Automatic Speech Translation of Audiobooks

Alexandre Berard, Laurent Besacier, Ali Can Kocabiyikoglu, Olivier Pietquin

Abstract

We investigate end-to-end speech-to-text translation on a corpus of audiobooks specifically augmented for this task. Previous works investigated the extreme case where source language transcription is not available during learning nor decoding, but we also study a midway case where source language transcription is available at training time only. In this case, a single model is trained to decode source speech into target text in a single pass. Experimental results show that it is possible to train compact and efficient end-to-end speech translation models in this setup. We also distribute the corpus and hope that our speech translation baseline on this corpus will be challenged in the future.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{icassp2018_endtoendautomati,
  title = {End-to-End Automatic Speech Translation of Audiobooks},
  author = {Alexandre Berard and Laurent Besacier and Ali Can Kocabiyikoglu and Olivier Pietquin},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2018},
  year = {2018}
}