Multilingual Speech Translation KIT @ IWSLT2021

Ngoc-Quan Pham, Tuan Nam Nguyen, Thanh-Le Ha, Sebastian Stüker, Alexander Waibel, Dan He


Abstract
This paper contains the description for the submission of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for the multilingual TEDx translation task in the IWSLT 2021 evaluation campaign. Our main approach is to develop both cascade and end-to-end systems and eventually combine them together to achieve the best possible results for this extremely low-resource setting. The report also confirms certain consistent architectural improvement added to the Transformer architecture, for all tasks: translation, transcription and speech translation.
Anthology ID:
2021.iwslt-1.18
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Bangkok, Thailand (online)
Editors:
Marcello Federico, Alex Waibel, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stuker, Elizabeth Salesky
Venue:
IWSLT
SIG:
SIGSLT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
154–159
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwslt-1.18
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.iwslt-1.18
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Cite (ACL):
Ngoc-Quan Pham, Tuan Nam Nguyen, Thanh-Le Ha, Sebastian Stüker, Alexander Waibel, and Dan He. 2021. Multilingual Speech Translation KIT @ IWSLT2021. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021), pages 154–159, Bangkok, Thailand (online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multilingual Speech Translation KIT @ IWSLT2021 (Pham et al., IWSLT 2021)
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