Brian J. Thompson

End-to-End Single-Channel Speaker-Turn Aware Conversational Speech Translation

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Conventional speech-to-text translation (ST) systems are trained on single-speaker utterances, and they may not generalize to real-life scenarios where the audio contains conversations by multiple speakers. In this paper, we tackle single-channel multi-speaker conversational ST …

A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We show that content on the web is often translated into many languages, and the low quality of these multi-way translations indicates they were likely created using Machine Translation (MT). Multi-way parallel, machine generated content …

ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora

2020

Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Elsa Sarrías, Marek Strelec, Brian Thompson, …