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MuST-C: a Multilingual Speech Translation Corpus

1 Jun 2019NAACL 2019 6archive 2025-07-28

Mattia A. Di Gangi, Roldano Cattoni, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Current research on spoken language translation (SLT) has to confront with the scarcity of sizeable and publicly available training corpora. This problem hinders the adoption of neural end-to-end approaches, which represent the state of the art in the two parent tasks of SLT: automatic speech recognition and machine translation. To fill this gap, we created MuST-C, a multilingual speech translation corpus whose size and quality will facilitate the training of end-to-end systems for SLT from English into 8 languages. For each target language, MuST-C comprises at least 385 hours of audio recordings from English TED Talks, which are automatically aligned at the sentence level with their manual transcriptions and translations. Together with a description of the corpus creation methodology (scalable to add new data and cover new languages), we provide an empirical verification of its quality and SLT results computed with a state-of-the-art approach on each language direction.

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Automatic Speech RecognitionAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR)Machine TranslationSentenceSpeech RecognitionTranslationspeech-recognition

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