ELITR Multilingual Live Subtitling: Demo and Strategy

EACL 2021 · Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar, Dominik Mach{\'a}{\v{c}}ek, Sangeet Sagar, Otakar Smr{\v{z}}, Jon{\'a}{\v{s}} Kratochv{\'\i}l, Peter Pol{\'a}k, Ebrahim Ansari, Mohammad Mahmoudi, Rishu Kumar, Dario Franceschini, Chiara Canton, Ivan Simonini, Thai-Son Nguyen, Felix Schneider, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel, Barry Haddow, Rico Sennrich, Philip Williams ·

This paper presents an automatic speech translation system aimed at live subtitling of conference presentations. We describe the overall architecture and key processing components. More importantly, we explain our strategy for building a complex system for end-users from numerous individual components, each of which has been tested only in laboratory conditions. The system is a working prototype that is routinely tested in recognizing English, Czech, and German speech and presenting it translated simultaneously into 42 target languages.

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