Advancing Speech Translation: A Corpus of Mandarin-English Conversational Telephone Speech
<|reference_start|>Advancing Speech Translation: A Corpus of Mandarin-English Conversational Telephone Speech: This paper introduces a set of English translations for a 123-hour subset of the CallHome Mandarin Chinese data and the HKUST Mandarin Telephone Speech data for the task of speech translation. Paired source-language speech and target-language text is essential for training end-to-end speech translation systems and can provide substantial performance improvements for cascaded systems as well, relative to training on more widely available text data sets. We demonstrate that fine-tuning a general-purpose translation model to our Mandarin-English conversational telephone speech training set improves target-domain BLEU by more than 8 points, highlighting the importance of matched training data.<|reference_end|>
@article{wotherspoon2024advancing,
    title={Advancing Speech Translation: A Corpus of Mandarin-English
  Conversational Telephone Speech},
    author={Shannon Wotherspoon, William Hartmann, Matthew Snover},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11619},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.11619},
    primaryClass={eess.AS cs.CL cs.SD}
}