Contextualized Translation of Automatically Segmented Speech
| Autor: | Marco Gaido, Marco Turchi, Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, Matteo Negri, Mauro Cettolo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Computer Science - Computation and Language Computer science Speech recognition media_common.quotation_subject Detector Context Inference Context (language use) Translation (geometry) Speech translation Segmentation VAD Test set Quality (business) Computation and Language (cs.CL) Sentence media_common |
| Zdroj: | INTERSPEECH |
| Popis: | Direct speech-to-text translation (ST) models are usually trained on corpora segmented at sentence level, but at inference time they are commonly fed with audio split by a voice activity detector (VAD). Since VAD segmentation is not syntax-informed, the resulting segments do not necessarily correspond to well-formed sentences uttered by the speaker but, most likely, to fragments of one or more sentences. This segmentation mismatch degrades considerably the quality of ST models' output. So far, researchers have focused on improving audio segmentation towards producing sentence-like splits. In this paper, instead, we address the issue in the model, making it more robust to a different, potentially sub-optimal segmentation. To this aim, we train our models on randomly segmented data and compare two approaches: fine-tuning and adding the previous segment as context. We show that our context-aware solution is more robust to VAD-segmented input, outperforming a strong base model and the fine-tuning on different VAD segmentations of an English-German test set by up to 4.25 BLEU points. Interspeech 2020 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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