FST: the FAIR Speech Translation System for the IWSLT21 Multilingual Shared Task

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06959v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:43:44 GMT
• Title: FST: the FAIR Speech Translation System for the IWSLT21 Multilingual Shared Task
• Authors: Yun Tang, Hongyu Gong, Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Juan Pino, Holger Schwenk, Naman Goyal
• Abstract summary: We describe our end-to-end multilingual speech translation system submitted to the IWSLT 2021 evaluation campaign. Our system is built by leveraging transfer learning across modalities, tasks and languages.
• Score: 36.51221186190272
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we describe our end-to-end multilingual speech translation system submitted to the IWSLT 2021 evaluation campaign on the Multilingual Speech Translation shared task. Our system is built by leveraging transfer learning across modalities, tasks and languages. First, we leverage general-purpose multilingual modules pretrained with large amounts of unlabelled and labelled data. We further enable knowledge transfer from the text task to the speech task by training two tasks jointly. Finally, our multilingual model is finetuned on speech translation task-specific data to achieve the best translation results. Experimental results show our system outperforms the reported systems, including both end-to-end and cascaded based approaches, by a large margin. In some translation directions, our speech translation results evaluated on the public Multilingual TEDx test set are even comparable with the ones from a strong text-to-text translation system, which uses the oracle speech transcripts as input.

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