Removing European Language Barriers with Innovative Machine Translation Technology

LREC 2020 · Dario Franceschini, Chiara Canton, Ivan Simonini, Armin Schweinfurth, Adelheid Glott, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Thai-Son Nguyen, Felix Schneider, Thanh-Le Ha, Alex Waibel, Barry Haddow, Philip Williams, Rico Sennrich, Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar, Sangeet Sagar, Dominik Mach{\'a}{\v{c}}ek, Otakar Smr{\v{z}} ·

This paper presents our progress towards deploying a versatile communication platform in the task of highly multilingual live speech translation for conferences and remote meetings live subtitling. The platform has been designed with a focus on very low latency and high flexibility while allowing research prototypes of speech and text processing tools to be easily connected, regardless of where they physically run. We outline our architecture solution and also briefly compare it with the ELG platform. Technical details are provided on the most important components and we summarize the test deployment events we ran so far.

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