CALLHOME: Egyptian Arabic Speech Translation Corpus
three-way parallel dataset of Egyptian Arabic Speech, transcriptions and English translations
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TRANSLATIONS OF THE CALLHOME EGYPTIAN ARABIC CORPUS FOR
CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH TRANSLATION
machine translation
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G. Kumar,Yuan Cao,Ryan Cotterell,Chris Callison-Burch,Daniel Povey,S. Khudanpur
Translation of the output of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, also known as speech translation, has received a lot of research interest recently. This is especially true for programs such as DARPA BOLT which focus on improving spontaneous human-human conversation across languages. However, this research is hindered by the dearth of datasets developed for this explicit purpose. For Egyptian Arabic-English, in particular, no parallel speechtranscription-translation dataset exists in the same domain. In order to support research in speech translation, we introduce the Callhome Egyptian Arabic-English Speech Translation Corpus. This supplements the existing LDC corpus with four reference translations for each utterance in the transcripts. The result is a three-way parallel dataset of Egyptian Arabic Speech, transcriptions and English translations.