Operating a Complex SLT System with Speakers and Human Interpreters

Ondřej Bojar, Vojtěch Srdečný, Rishu Kumar, Otakar Smrž, Felix Schneider, Barry Haddow, Phil Williams, Chiara Canton


Abstract
We describe our experience with providing automatic simultaneous spoken language translation for an event with human interpreters. We provide a detailed overview of the systems we use, focusing on their interconnection and the issues it brings. We present our tools to monitor the pipeline and a web application to present the results of our SLT pipeline to the end users. Finally, we discuss various challenges we encountered, their possible solutions and we suggest improvements for future deployments.
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2021.mtsummit-asltrw.3
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automatic Spoken Language Translation in Real-World Settings (ASLTRW)
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August
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2021
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Virtual
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Marco Turchi, Claudio Fantinuoli
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MTSummit
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Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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23–34
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Ondřej Bojar, Vojtěch Srdečný, Rishu Kumar, Otakar Smrž, Felix Schneider, Barry Haddow, Phil Williams, and Chiara Canton. 2021. Operating a Complex SLT System with Speakers and Human Interpreters. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automatic Spoken Language Translation in Real-World Settings (ASLTRW), pages 23–34, Virtual. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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