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# Cascaded Speech Translation Model: Bengali to English

This model performs cascaded speech translation:
1. **ASR Model:** Transcribes Bengali audio to Bengali text.
2. **MT Model:** Translates Bengali text to English.

## Components
- ASR Model: `satarupa22/whisper-small-bn`
- MT Model: `Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-bn-en`

## Usage
Use the `pipeline.py` script to perform speech translation. Example usage is documented in the script.

## Training Details
The models were fine-tuned using the FLEURS dataset: `satarupa22/FLEURS-BN-EN`.
