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title = "End-to-End Speech Translation of {A}rabic to {E}nglish Broadcast News",
author = "Bougares, Fethi and
Jouili, Salim",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Darwish, Kareem and
Rambow, Owen and
Bougares, Fethi and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Tomeh, Nadi and
Khalifa, Salam and
Zaghouani, Wajdi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.29",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.wanlp-1.29",
pages = "312--319",
abstract = "Speech translation (ST) is the task of directly translating acoustic speech signals in a source language into text in a foreign language. ST task has been addressed, for a long time, using a pipeline approach with two modules : first an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in the source language followed by a text-to-text Machine translation (MT). In the past few years, we have seen a paradigm shift towards the end-to-end approaches using sequence-to-sequence deep neural network models. This paper presents our efforts towards the development of the first Broadcast News end-to-end Arabic to English speech translation system. Starting from independent ASR and MT LDC releases, we were able to identify about 92 hours of Arabic audio recordings for which the manual transcription was also translated into English at the segment level. These data was used to train and compare pipeline and end-to-end speech translation systems under multiple scenarios including transfer learning and data augmentation techniques.",
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%T End-to-End Speech Translation of Arabic to English Broadcast News
%A Bougares, Fethi
%A Jouili, Salim
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Al-Khalifa, Hend
%Y Darwish, Kareem
%Y Rambow, Owen
%Y Bougares, Fethi
%Y Abdelali, Ahmed
%Y Tomeh, Nadi
%Y Khalifa, Salam
%Y Zaghouani, Wajdi
%S Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
%F bougares-jouili-2022-end
%X Speech translation (ST) is the task of directly translating acoustic speech signals in a source language into text in a foreign language. ST task has been addressed, for a long time, using a pipeline approach with two modules : first an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in the source language followed by a text-to-text Machine translation (MT). In the past few years, we have seen a paradigm shift towards the end-to-end approaches using sequence-to-sequence deep neural network models. This paper presents our efforts towards the development of the first Broadcast News end-to-end Arabic to English speech translation system. Starting from independent ASR and MT LDC releases, we were able to identify about 92 hours of Arabic audio recordings for which the manual transcription was also translated into English at the segment level. These data was used to train and compare pipeline and end-to-end speech translation systems under multiple scenarios including transfer learning and data augmentation techniques.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.wanlp-1.29
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.29
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.wanlp-1.29
%P 312-319
Markdown (Informal)
[End-to-End Speech Translation of Arabic to English Broadcast News](https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.29) (Bougares & Jouili, WANLP 2022)
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