Aashish Agarwal


2023

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Towards Real-World Streaming Speech Translation for Code-Switched Speech
Belen Alastruey | Matthias Sperber | Christian Gollan | Dominic Telaar | Tim Ng | Aashish Agarwal
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching

Code-switching (CS), i.e. mixing different languages in a single sentence, is a common phenomenon in communication and can be challenging in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) settings. Previous studies on CS speech have shown promising results for end-to-end speech translation (ST), but have been limited to offline scenarios and to translation to one of the languages present in the source monolingual transcription). In this paper, we focus on two essential yet unexplored areas for real-world CS speech translation: streaming settings, and translation to a third language (i.e., a language not included in the source). To this end, we extend the Fisher and Miami test and validation datasets to include new targets in Spanish and German. Using this data, we train a model for both offline and streaming ST and we establish baseline results for the two settings mentioned earlier.

2021

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Robustness of end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition Models – A Case Study using Mozilla DeepSpeech
Aashish Agarwal | Torsten Zesch
Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021)